PCMC incompatible heart transplant

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Lehi infant receives hospital's first incompatible heart transplant
May 25th, 2010 @ 9:54pm
By Ed Yeates

SALT LAKE CITY -- Surgeons at Primary Children's Medical Center have transplanted Utah's first "incompatible" heart into a three and a half-month-old infant from Lehi. Though the heart was not a match for the boy's blood type, he did not reject it.

Incompatible hearts have been transplanted in selected infants in Canada and at some other medical centers in the United States, but this was the first such transplant for the Intermountain area and Primary Children's Medical Center.

The prognosis is excellent, not only for Landen, but other infants who can now draw from a larger pool of donor hearts. As Everitt explained it, "Our standard now is to evaluate every patient less than a year of age who is undergoing a heart transplant to see if they could have an incompatible heart transplant."

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