Heart from brain-dead donor arrives in Osaka

Heart from brain-dead donor arrives in Osaka

Doctors arrive at Osaka airport by helicopter, carrying an icebox containing a heart removed from a brain-dead donor in Kochi, western Japan, on Feb. 28. The heart was later transplanted into a patient at Osaka University Hospital, marking Japan's first heart transplant since a law permitting such operations took effect in October 1997.

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