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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS – March 13, 2018 – UT Southwestern Medical Center has produced a video that provides an unprecedented 360˚ view of a lifesaving heart transplant. Since 1988, physicians at UT Southwestern have performed more than 600 heart transplants, making the institution a leading transplant center in North Texas. UT Southwestern treats the most complex cases of heart failure, including patients with other serious medical conditions and those in need of heart-lung or heart-kidney transplantation.
The activity surrounding a heart transplant has remained a mystery to most people – until now. Witness a heart transplant at UT Southwestern as it’s never been seen outside the operating room, from the delivery of the donated heart, to the initial incision, to the final close.