World's first 'dead-heart' transplant at Sydney hospital
October 24, 2014 16:12
In a world first, surgeons at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital have made a dead heart beat again and successfully used it in a transplant, reports news.com.
Described as the biggest heart transplant breakthrough in a decade, the successful surgery has profound implications for reducing the shortage of donor organs, the director of St Vincent's Hospital Heart Lung Transplant Unit, Professor Peter MacDonald, said today.
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Described as the biggest heart transplant breakthrough in a decade, the successful surgery has profound implications for reducing the shortage of donor organs, the director of St Vincent's Hospital Heart Lung Transplant Unit, Professor Peter MacDonald, said today.
Read the full report here
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