Doctors of at the heart transplant unit at Sydney’s St. Vincent’s Hospital have successfully transplanted a dead heart into a live patient and eureka, it worked.
This latest breakthrough is the culmination of 20 years of hard work and research.
They have successfully completed three transplants using hearts that had stopped beating for 20 minutes – said to be the first such transplants in the world, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
Two of those who were used as guinea pigs are already hale and hearty going about their normal daily routine.
One of them, Michelle Gribilas, a 57-year-old who had congestive heart failure, said that she was “very sick” before having the operation two months ago, and “now I’m a different person altogether. I feel like I’m 40 years old.”