Patient Receives First Heart/Liver Double Organ Transplant in State

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"It is rare for a patient to need two organs, and even more so to need a heart and liver," said Dr. John Goss, director of the liver transplant program at Methodist Hospital. "It's hard to transplant two organs and it is very unusual for a hospital to have the resources to do both organs."

The surgery requires heart and liver transplant surgeons to work together. Dr. Goss and Dr. Javier Lafuente, a heart surgeon at Methodist, worked side by side, transplanting the organs one right after the other. After Lafuente performed the sixhour heart transplant and [Linda Lane]'s heart was off the bypass machine, Dr. Goss began another three-hour procedure to transplant the liver.

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Patient Receives First Heart/Liver Double Organ Transplant in State

HOUSTON - A 57-year-old woman from northeast Texas is recovering at Methodist Hospital in Houston after undergoing th...

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