breakingnews
16.07.2007, 22:04
Up to 2,000 sick children in Russia could be given the chance to live longer and more fulfilling lives thanks to new rules on organ transplants. At the moment, it's against the law to use children’s organs in transplant operations, but the Health Ministry
12.03.2007, 19:11
20 years ago surgeons performed the first heart transplantation operation in the USSR. Since then, over 100 transplants have been made, with the majority of operations in Moscow.
02.10.2007, 15:13
Surgery has been completed on the youngest-ever Russian to have a heart implant. The 17-year-old suffering from an enlarged heart received the lifesaving treatment at the world's largest cardiology hospital in Moscow.
Published: 13 May, 2009, 09:40
Although children’s organ donation could improve the situation, Russia still does not have enough transplantologists, a national system with public control or a legal basis for children’s heart donorship.
