Tokyo - Japanese doctors yesterday carried out the nation's first heart transplant in 31 years. The operation at Osaka University hospital was also the first transplant of organs from a donor legally defined as brain dead under a 1997 law.
Heart transplant first in 31 years
Tokyo - Japanese doctors yesterday carried out the nation's first heart transplant in 31 years
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