{"id":179739,"date":"2024-01-03T13:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-proves-successful-in-first-year"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:27:39","slug":"worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-proves-successful-in-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-proves-successful-in-first-year","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first partial heart transplant proves successful in first year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-proves-successful-in-first-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first partial heart transplant has achieved what researchers have spent more than a year hoping for\u2014functioning valves and arteries that grow along with the young patient, as hypothesized by the pioneering team behind the procedure at Duke Health.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure was performed in the spring of 2022, in an infant who needed <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+valve+replacement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart valve replacement<\/a>. The previous standard of care\u2014using valves that were non-living\u2014would not grow along with the child, requiring frequent replacement, entailing surgical procedures that carry a 50% mortality rate.<\/p>\n<p>A study led by Duke Health physicians, appearing online Jan. 2 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2813552?resultClick=1\">Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a> (<i>JAMA<\/i>), found that the new manner of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/valve\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">valve<\/a> procurement used during the partial <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart<\/a> transplant led to two well-functioning valves and arteries that are growing in concert with the child as if they were native vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first partial heart transplant has achieved what researchers have spent more than a year hoping for\u2014functioning valves and arteries that grow along with the young patient, as hypothesized by the pioneering team behind the procedure at Duke Health. The procedure was performed in the spring of 2022, in an infant who needed heart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}