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First Heart Transplants in Children Following Donor Cardiac Death
US doctors have reported the first experiences of heart transplant in three infants after cardiocirculatory death, rather than brain death, in the donors [1]. Lead author Dr Mark M Boucek (Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Hollywood, FL) told heartwire this was, to his knowledge, the first published account of heart transplant in children after donor cardiac death, although organs other than hearts are transplanted after cardiac death.
More at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/579079
More at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/579079
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