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Three transplants at one go

XI’AN: A Chinese hospital said on Sunday that it had successfully transplanted a heart, liver and kidney into one patient, the first such operation in the country.

The transplant lasted 16 hours and ended early on Sunday morning.

The 47-year-old female patient had come around and was recovering, said Dr. Dou Kefeng of the Xijing Hospital hepatobiliary surgery department.

The hospital in Xi’an, capital of the northwestern Shaanxi Province, is known for conducting the first face transplant in China, the second globally, in 2006.

The multi-transplant patient was diagnosed with uraemia and liver cancer when she came to the hospital on January 8.

However, doctors found a dilated cardiomyopathy, a disorder of the heart muscle, while planning the kidney and liver transplants. This meant she required a new heart first.

More than 30 experts were involved in the complicated operation. Nearly 1,000 stitches were made during the surgery. — Xinhua

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