{"id":5441,"date":"2022-09-14T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2022-09-14T06:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:46:02","slug":"worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-completed-in-newborn-with-truncus-arteriosus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/09\/14\/worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-completed-in-newborn-with-truncus-arteriosus\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first partial heart transplant completed in newborn with truncus arteriosus"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5441\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Duke Health announced successful completion of the world\u2019s first partial heart transplant, using living arteries and valves from a donor heart that were fused onto the existing heart of a newborn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patient,\u00a0<strong>Owen Monroe<\/strong>\u00a0from Leland, North Carolina, was born with truncus arteriosus \u2014 a condition in which the left and right main coronary arteries fused together \u2014 as well as atrial regurgitation in one valve. The combination made it unlikely the patient would survive until full heart transplant; therefore, living\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/cardiology\/20220712\/genetically-engineered-pig-hearts-successfully-transplanted-into-two-braindead-humans\" target=\"_blank\">tissue from the donor<\/a>\u00a0heart of another infant, not suitable for full transplant but with strong valves, was used for the novel procedure.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/cardiology\/20220908\/worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-completed-in-newborn-with-truncus-arteriosus?utm_source=selligent&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news&amp;M_BT=7635131937835\">Read the full story<\/a> in Healio. <\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5441\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Duke Health announced successful completion of the world\u2019s first partial heart transplant, using living arteries and valves from a donor heart that were fused onto the existing heart of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/09\/14\/worlds-first-partial-heart-transplant-completed-in-newborn-with-truncus-arteriosus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World\u2019s first partial heart transplant completed in newborn with truncus arteriosus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,5,254],"tags":[1050,1049],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1453","post_likes_plusCounter":"","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}