Britain’s first beating heart transplant a success

DOCTORS have performed Britain’s first beating heart transplant and say they hope the procedure will “revolutionise” the way transplants are carried out.

Professor Bruce Rosengard, from Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, led the team that transferred a beating heart into a 58-year-old man, who did not wish to be named.

The operation, which has only been performed twice before in Germany, relies on the heart being kept warm and beating outside of the body prior to transplant.