Teams at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and St. Louis-based WashU Medicine Heart Center performed its first living pediatric “domino” partial heart transplant.
The achievement marks the eighth program in the U.S. to successfully complete a pediatric domino heart transplant, according to an Oct. 13 system news release.
In the procedure, a first patient received a total heart transplant before having their aortic heart valve transplanted into another patient. The surgeries required the collaboration of more than 20 specialists in two operating rooms.
In 2024, the program became the first in the nation to surpass 600 pediatric heart transplants.
