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Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World’s 1st Partial Heart Transplant

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— Child and transplanted tissue together remain in good condition per case report

By Nicole Lou

The newborn that received the world’s first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team.

Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable truncal valve dysfunction, Owen Monroe received living tissue implants containing the aortic and pulmonary valves — tissue that is expected to grow alongside the child. Read the article in MedPage Today.

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Texas physicians perform rare partial heart transplant on 11-month-old

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By Mariah Taylor

UT Health Austin and Dell Children’s Medical Center physicians performed the world’s seventh pediatric partial heart transplant.

The surgery was performed June 23 on an 11-month-old baby who was born with a congenital heart defect condition. The baby’s valve between the lower left heart chamber and the main artery did not open fully, according to a July 10 system press release. The 11-hour surgery used valves from a donor heart as a complete transplant. Read more in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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