OSAKA -- Doctors across Japan began a series of operations Wednesday morning to transplant organs from a man in his 30s who was pronounced brain dead the day before in Wakayama, according to Japan Organ Transplant Network officials.
The man's heart, lungs, liver, pancreas and kidneys were removed early Wednesday and delivered to hospitals in locations including Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka and Miyagi prefectures, the officials said.
A man in his 30s who is suffering from a heart muscle disorder will receive the heart in an operation at Osaka University Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. The lungs will go to a man in his 20s with a bronchial infection at Tohoku University Hospital in Sendai.