Tag: Heart Transplant

The heart was also found to contain evidence of DNA from a latent pig virus called porcine cytomegalovirus (pCMV) through highly sensitive testing that was first detected several weeks after the surgery and was later confirmed during autopsy of the organ.

Precise and meticulous planning by various private and government agencies enabled a donated heart "fly" from Indore to Mumbai within just 116 minutes to save the life of a 22-year-old cardiac patient from Odisha at a hospital here on Saturday, officials said