Zimbabwe: Looking Back – N.Z Pips Republic in Double Valve Hearts ‘Plants’

Surgeons at Auckland’s Greenlane Hospital have performed eight double-valve transplants using human heart valves, a spokesman for the hospital’s surgical team said today, commenting on a report that South African surgeons had just carried out what they believed to be the first such operation.

The spokesman said the first double-valve transplant in Auckland was done three months ago. Six out of eight patients were alive, the spokesman said.

Although double transplants using human valves had been…