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Al-Marsad Newspaper: A consultant cardiac surgeon, Dr. Firas Khalil, revealed the success rate of heart transplant operations in the Kingdom.
He said during an interview with the “Yahla” program broadcast on the “Rotana Gulf” channel: “According to the International Commission for Heart Transplantation, the success rate of heart transplantation operations is 87%, and this percentage according to the centers in which heart transplantation operations are performed reaches 20 or 25 per year. “.
He continued: “Our heart transplant operations have reached 40 heart transplants per year, and the success rate has reached 92%, and the Kingdom is among the top five in the world.”
