Three-month old girl Czechia’s youngest patient to undergo heart transplant

Doctors at Prague’s Motol University Hospital have performed a heart transplant on a three-month-old baby girl suffering from cardiomyopathy, a disease that can lead to an extremely rapid organ failure, the hospital informed in a press release on Monday.

The girl, who has become the youngest child in Czechia to have a heart transplant, is still being treated in the hospital. According to the doctors, the surgery was successful and the prognosis is favourable.

According to data from the Transplant Coordination Centre, doctors transplanted 34 hearts in the Czech Republic in the first nine months of this year, compared to 81 in the whole of 2022.