The Night of the First Heart Transplant in Italy

Gaetano Thiene

Department of Cardio-Thoraco-Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua, Italy

*Corresponding Author: Gaetano Thiene, Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Pathology, University of Padua, Department of Cardio-Thoraco-Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Italy.

DOI: 10.64258/3067-7130.2025.1020022

Submission Date: June 23, 2025

Published Date: July 8, 2025

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Abstract

I beg your pardon if I will be boring you with a storytelling of just a case. I will deal with the first patient who underwent cardiac transplantation performed in Italy. Organ transplantation is one of the major surgical therapies. This is particularly true for heart transplantation, a procedure lifesaving from the lethal heart failure.

Keywords

Cardiac transplantation, Lethal heart failure

Citation

Gaetano Thiene (2025) The Night of the First Heart Transplant in Italy. On J Clin & Med Case Rep 1(5): 1-11.