A groundbreaking moment in Canadian healthcare occurred when a Canadian surgeon completed the country’s first donation-after-death heart transplant in Toronto.

At the University Health Network’s (UHN) Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Dr. Seyed Alireza Rabi led the team of doctors and nurses behind this historic procedure, Canada’s first donation after death heart transplant.

“This is absolutely a transformation, we are in an era that’s going to change the way heart transplants are done, said Dr. Seyed Alireza Rabi, UHN cardiac surgeon.

A new era in heart transplants

Traditionally, heart transplants are performed when brain death has been confirmed, but the heart continues to beat. The advanced procedure changes that process. Once a family agrees to take a loved one off life support and a dea

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