(Source: merylittlelife, via samaralex)
It turned out that a few years earlier, the man had undergone a procedure known as a heterotopic heart transplant. Unlike an orthotopic transplant, in which one organ is removed and another put in its place, a heterotopic transplant pairs a new organ with a diseased one.
I had no idea heterotopic transplants existed. Very interesting.
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