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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

World-first ‘living tissue’ partial heart transplant saves newborn baby

Screenshot / Duke University Hospital

A partial heart transplant using living tissue, thought to be the first in the world, has saved a newborn baby.

Owen Monroe was born in April of this year at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina with a lethal heart condition. Four months after the surgery, his parents say his recovery is going well.

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