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Surgeons of the Cedar-Sinai Medical center in Los Angeles had to transplant to the patient the “used” donor heart, which first owner died soon after the surgery.
The second recipient, whose name is not informed, had been in a waiting list of donor organs for some years. According to doctors, because of extraordinary big constitution of this patient, chances to find another suitable for him transplant were very insignificant. At the same time, the state of the man, who had syndrome of noncompact myocardium, worsened quickly and demanded immediate heart transplantation.
As informed in interview to Reuters director of Cedar-Sinai transplantation division doctor Lawrence S. C. Czer, the first recipient had lived with the donor heart about one week, and the reasons of his death had no relation to the operation.
According to Czer, the second heart transplantation was complicated by many factors. Two long periods of blood supply absence during both operations considerably increased risk of a unsuccessful outcome.
Nevertheless, the patient was successfully operated and quickly recovers. Now he has left the medical center, graft rejection is not observed.