Owen’s parents Tayler and Nick Monroe spend time with him after he underwent the world’s first partial heart transplant in April 2022 just 17 days after he was born. — Photos: TNS
In 2022, Duke Health surgeons in North Carolina, United States, made history when they successfully performed the world’s first partial heart transplant on a newborn.
Doctors thought the groundbreaking, eight-hour surgery – which fused living arteries and valves from a donor’s heart to a newborn’s heart – could create a new field of cardiac surgery that would spare young patients from numerous risky procedures later in their lives.
