Triple organ transplant is first in the nation to use three organs from a donor after circulatory death using innovative approach for organ recovery
Anthony Donatelli, age 40, has served in the U.S. Navy for 22 years. On February 14, 2022, he was wheeled into the operating room at UC San Diego Health; his body facing a different kind of combat. His kidney, heart and liver were failing, and he was about to receive three new organs.
“I didn’t have the option of dying. I had two children at home, a six and three-year-old,” said Donatelli. Read the full story from UC San Diego Health.