Donor heart travels 12 hours across Atlantic before use in successful transplant in world first
Surgeons in Paris successfully carried out a heart transplant earlier this year after a donor organ travelled across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. The heart came from a 48-year-old man in the French West Indies who was declared brain dead three days after a stroke. It was then transported to Paris in the cabin of a commercial Air France flight and was preserved for twelve hours. The recipient was a 70-year-old man who was discharged from the hospital 30 days after surgery. Dr Guillaume Lebreton, a heart surgeon at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, travelled with the organ and pe...