2024-01-05 08:27:14
Owen Monroe, the little one transplanted to the USA in 2022, is doing well. The heart valves implanted by a team from Duke Health (USA) have integrated into the body and developed
Little Owen Monroe celebrated his birthday with a double milestone as a champion: having become the first newborn in the world to receive a partial heart transplant in September 2022 and, now, having spent another year of life during which the tissue used to repair his heart grew as he developed. The positive results of these first 13 months of life are evident, looking at the photos and videos taken by Nick and Tayler Monroe, his parents, after the transplant. But they are also reported in a scientific capacity in an article published in Jama by the team of Joseph W. Turek, first author of the study and head of pediatric cardiac surgery at Duke Health (Duke University School of Medicine, United States). The partial heart transplant procedure has so far been performed 13 times at four centers around the world
05 January 2024
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