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Rare surgery transplants reversed heart

A rare U.S. heart transplant replaced the defective heart on the right side of a man’s chest with a re-engineered normal left-side donor heart, doctors
said.

The six-hour operation at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison is believed to be Wisconsin’s first, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The procedure is probably done only once every four or five years in the United States, the newspaper said.