4 heart transplant updates and firsts

Here are four recent heart transplant updates and firsts:

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  1. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston recently performed the organization’s first heart transplant without the use of outside blood products.
  2. Stanford (Calif.) Medicine surgeons are the first to transplant a beating heart into a patient.
  3. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic recommends three ways to improve transplant outcomes and get more organs into the people who need them.
  4. A 32-year-old nursing student received a dual-organ transplant thanks to her more than 250-person team at Rochester, N.Y.-based Strong Memorial Hospital.

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