Italy has performed the world's first
heart transplants from COVID-positive donors to virus-negative
recipients in Bologna and Rome, sources said Thursday.
A 64-year-old man got a new heart at Bologna's Sant'Orsola
Hospital and a 15-year-old boy received one at Rome's Bambino
Gesù Hospital.
The recipients did not get COVID after the transplants, hospital
sources said.
The man got his heart at the end of April and the boy his in
mid-May.
The recipients suffered from very serious and potentially
life-threatening heart conditions.
They benefitted from an exemption for the two hospitals granted
by the national transplant centre (CNT), which has banned other
transplants from COVID-positive donors.
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