Transplant shows heart's reparative capabilities
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 20:42
in Health & Medicine
A girl received a piggyback heart transplant as a toddler, and the donor organ was removed 10 years later after her own healed. The technique may be useful in developing other types of heart therapy. In an unprecedented feat, British surgeons implanted a donor heart in a dying toddler whose own heart was too weak to sustain life, then removed it 10 years...