The heart of a 20-year-old man killed in a road accident in Haifa was transplanted Monday into the body of a 45-year-old Ramla resident in the country’s second heart transplant at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
Yaacov Goldfarb was reported Tuesday morning to be doing well after the four-hour operation. A hospital spokesman said that by midday Tuesday he had recovered consciousness, but was not yet able to speak. His wife and family had looked in on him for a few moments.
The patient’s condition was described by the hospital as “still critical, but stable.”
Goldfarb had been waiting some seven months for the operation, and was told only Monday afternoon that Hadassah doctors had found a suitable heart at Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
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