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Published on 2025-08-24 17:01:15
A team at Duke Health has pioneered two world-first heart repair surgeries, living mitral valve replacement, and reanimation innovations in children to save lives, but also to improve organ stewardship for the field.
They were able to perform the world’s first living mitral valve replacement after an adolescent girl received a full heart transplant and donated the healthy valves from her original heart.
The valves were then used to save the lives of two other girls, one of whom…
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