- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston recently performed the organization’s first heart transplant without the use of outside blood products.
- Stanford (Calif.) Medicine surgeons are the first to transplant a beating heart into a patient.
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic recommends three ways to improve transplant outcomes and get more organs into the people who need them.
- A 32-year-old nursing student received a dual-organ transplant thanks to her more than 250-person team at Rochester, N.Y.-based Strong Memorial Hospital.
4 heart transplant updates and firsts
Here are four recent heart transplant updates and firsts:
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