Saudi hospital uses 1 donor heart to treat 2 children in pioneering transplant

RIYADH: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre has successfully treated two children using a single donor heart in what it described as the first pediatric domino transplant of its kind in the Middle East and Europe. The donor heart was transplanted into a 12-year-old boy with end-stage heart failure, while the healthy pulmonary valve and root from his explanted heart were used to treat a second child, extending the benefit of a single donated heart to two patients, the Saudi Pres