A team of surgeons from New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System performed the first heart-liver-kidney transplant in the state of New York.
The team performed the same triple-organ transplant in a second patient two months later, according to a May 20 news release from the health system.
Both patients have been discharged and are making full recoveries.
Only 58 heart-liver-kidney transplants have been performed since 1987, when the United Network for Organ Sharing began tracking the procedures, the release said.
Both procedures were led by Mount Sinai surgeons Anelechi Anyanwu, MD, vice chair of the department of cardiovascular surgery, and Sander Florman, MD, director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute.
