Two-month old Spanish baby girl Naiara, who received a heart transplant in a pioneering surgery where doctors used a heart that had already stopped beating from a donor with a different blood type, is seen in this handout picture released May 17, 2021 by Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid, Spain. Gregorio Maranon Hospital/Handout?via REUTERS
MADRID (Reuters) - The life of a two-month-old Spanish girl was saved by pioneering surgery when doctors transplanted a small heart that had stopped beating from a donor with a different blood type, Hospital Gregorio Maranon said on Monday.
"It was twice the magic," said Juan Miguel Gil Jaurena, head of children's cardiac surgery at the Madrid hospital, explaining that such techniques did not exist for young children three years ago and had never before been used on a baby so small.
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