The successful transplant operation, reported online in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday, marks a further advance in the search for ways to make new body parts.
Not exact matches
Since the world's first
successful organ
transplant in 1954 — a kidney — the discipline has advanced to the point where a wounded soldier could have his penis and scrotum replaced in a groundbreaking
operation last month.
In light of the success of recent heart
transplant operations with unrelated donors and donees, he reasoned, there must be a high probability that a
transplant of the heart of a genetic relative would be
successful.
«The institutional resources necessary to manage
successful transcatheter programs are significant, on par with heart
transplant and cardiac device assist programs, and should be performed in institutions that perform higher volumes of surgical valve
operations with established track records,» said Dr. Tommaso.