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A 3-Year-Old Boy Received a Heart Transplant with an Unprecedented Technique in a Public Hospital

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A pediatric heart donation in asystole controlled by Normothermic Regional Perfusion (PRN) was made for the first time at the National Hospital Professor Alejandro Posadas setting a historical precedent.The procedure used controlled asystole with normothermic regional perfusion: the heart was removed when the donor stopped beating and blood flow was restored to preserve the organ before implantation.The Paediatric Palliative Care and Intensive C…
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A pediatric heart donation in asystole controlled by Normothermic Regional Perfusion (PRN) was made for the first time at the National Hospital Professor Alejandro Posadas setting a historical precedent.The procedure used controlled asystole with normothermic regional perfusion: the heart was removed when the donor stopped beating and blood flow was restored to preserve the organ before implantation.The Paediatric Palliative Care and Intensive C…

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Filo News broke the news in on Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
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