SYDNEY — In what has been described as the biggest breakthrough in a decade, surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney have transplanted hearts from dead bodies into patients.
The world-first procedure, which uses hearts that are no longer beating, will allow more lives to be saved. Previously, the hearts used for transplants were beating and from brain-dead patients.
Doctors at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute announced on Friday they had performed the operation on two patients using hearts that had stopped beating for 20 minutes.
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