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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Although double transplants using human valves had been…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7053,16547,50541,257,49186,5142,5935,254,50542,4686,421],"class_list":["post-190188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-double","tag-hearts","tag-n-z","tag-news","tag-pips","tag-plants","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-valve","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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