Transplanted Heart Transplanted Again

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two months ago at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, surgeons removed a transplanted heart from a patient who had died and re-transplanted it in another recipient."To my knowledge, this is the first time this has been done with a transplanted heart,” Dr. Lawrence S. C. Czer, medical director of the center’s heart transplant program, told Reuters Health. “Even with other organs, repeat transplantation is very rare.”>>> Discuss This Story

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