ST. LOUIS — This summer, a team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and WashU Medicine Heart Center successfully performed the first living pediatric “domino” partial heart transplant in the Midwest. The groundbreaking procedure has been performed at only seven other hospitals in the U.S.

The highly complex surgery required the skill of more than 20 specialists working in two operating rooms — including WashU Medicine pediatric heart transplant surgeons, cardiologists, cardiac intensivists and anesthesiologists — along with inpatient and operating room nurses, perfusionists, transplant coordinators, Child Life Specialists, and other practitioners at St. Louis Children’s.

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