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Children's Hospital photos of the operation

Lying just beds apart in Children's Hospital, two critically ill infants needed transplants. Three-month-old Jason Wolfe was on a waiting list for new lungs, while Kayla Richardson, at two months old, needed a new heart. The odds were against them and time was running
out.

When a heart-lung set became available, doctors began a rare "domino transplant," giving the donated organs to Jason and using his healthy heart to save Kayla. In side-by-side operating rooms, they became the youngest patients ever to give -- and receive -- a living heart.

  • Living testaments
    Rare operation pays off at Children’s (Feb. 3, 2006)

  • Rare surgery performed on infants
    WBNS-10TV news coverage(Feb. 3, 2006)

  • Transplant surgery saves two babies
    WBNS-10TV NightBeat video

  • Children's performs rare domino transplant
    (Feb. 2, 2006)

    From the archive

  • Hospital’s first lung transplant a success
    Woman benefits from Children’s new venture (July 20, 2005)

  • Heart-warming hope
    Baby recovering after Children’s 1 st infant heart transplant (Feb. 12, 2005)