Japan's first heart, liver and kidney transplant operations involving a legally declared brain-dead donor were successfully completed early Monday morning, hospital officials said.
The operations came 16 months after a law finally permitting them took effect in October 1997.
A man in his 40s received a heart Sunday night at Osaka University Medical School Hospital after the organ was transferred from Kochi Red Cross Hospital in Kochi Prefecture the same evening.
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