STL Children’s Hospital performs groundbreaking domino transplant

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct inaccuracies with the procedure. We regret the error

ST. LOUIS – In a groundbreaking procedure at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, a child’s healthy heart valve was transplanted to another child during simultaneous surgeries.

The first patient received a total heart transplant and donated their functioning aortic heart valve to another young patient whose valve was failing…

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