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Chinese Doctors Successfully Conduct Heart Surgery 7 Hours After Organ was Taken Out

Dec 20, 2015 06:29 AM EST

A heart surgery carried out in east China has been a success despite the fact that the organ had been removed from the donor's body for about seven hours already. According to experts, a heart cannot be revived once it has been out of the body for more than six hours.

Doctors Successfully Transplant "Dead Hearts" in Patients

Cory Doyle |

Oct 27, 2014 03:07 PM EDT

Australian doctors have recently performed a remarkable act by successfully transplanting a "dead heart" into a 57-year-old woman for the first time in medical history, according to a report by the BBC.

Facebook rejects ad to 'boost' Hudson Bond's photo

Facebook Finds Photo of Baby Needing Heart Transplant ‘Too Graphic’ To Post

Erika Villanueva |

Sep 10, 2014 08:08 AM EDT

Facebook found a photo of an infant who needs a heart transplant ‘too graphic’ to be posted on a page his father had created to raise awareness and funds for his baby boy.