The hospital’s heart transplant team completed the first such procedure Nov. 10, 1989.
The 300th patient, 43-year-old Adam Tappin, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy more than a decade ago after experiencing shortness of breath while playing basketball. Since then, a heartmate device had been keeping his heart pumping.
The milestone case was performed a few weeks ago, KARK reported.
“His body had developed antibodies to multiple different antigens that we all produce in our bodies. As a result, there was a very small, limited number of patients in the population that he was a match with,” Patrick Campbell, MD, medical director of the Baptist Health Heart Failure and Transplant Institute, told the news station.
“We’ve averaged 10 transplants a year, but to reach the 300th is significant and then to do it with a patient like Adam is pretty special,” said John Ransom, MD, program director at the hospital’s heart transplant institute.
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