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A record-setting transplant heals a baby’s broken heart

Partial-heart transplant from a living donor allows an infant's heart valves to grow as he does.
Congenital heart malformation, 3D CT scan.

Babies born with certain heart abnormalities (congenitally damaged heart, pictured) can be treated with transplants from cadavers, but such tissue does not grow with the child. Credit: Dr Jf Paul/BSIP/SPL

A first-of-its-kind, partial heart transplant has given a baby boy born with faulty heart valves a set of fresh valves that grow with him1.

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Nature 625, 219 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04018-x

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  1. Turek, J. W., Kang, L., Overbey, D. M., Carboni, M. P. & Rajab, T. K. JAMA 331, 60–64 (2024).

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