Historic Transplant Completed in Japan
Associated Press
TOKYO —
Japanese doctors completed a heart transplant Sunday, the first such operation in this country in three decades.
The donor, a 44-year-old woman, was declared brain dead early Sunday, and the organ was transplanted into a man in his 40s, said a Health and Welfare Ministry official.
The donor’s liver and both kidneys were removed and sent to separate hospitals.
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