Hero 10-year-old heart transplant patient pays it forward — to save the lives of two toddlers in same-day surgeries

It started with the gift of a single heart — and ended with three lives transformed.

Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital performed an extremely rare series of surgeries on the same day in July that changed the lives of three children forever.

A heart from a deceased donor was transplanted into 10-year-old Hend Almesafri, who paid it forward by then providing her pulmonary valve to John Catoliato, 2, and her aortic valve to Teddy Carter, 3.

Now thriving, all three kids reunited at the hospital in February, where Hend surprised her “heart brothers” with gifts and a moment their families will never forget…

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