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Thursday, April 27, 2023
Organs of baby killed in Wednesday crash donated to tissue bank
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRenee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel.
The National Transplant Center reports that before going into surgery for injuries sustained yesterday in a car crash on Route 40 in southern Israel, Ayala Domanovich requested that the organs of her one-year-old son killed in the collision be donated.
Maayan’s Domanovich’s heart valves were saved and will be kept at Sheba Medical Center’s tissue bank for future transplantation in an infant in need of valves of the same measurements.
Heart valves, which can remain in a tissue bank for up to five years, must be transplanted according to exact size.
Ayala’s husband Eyal Domanovich and their son Uri were both seriously injured in the crash, while she and two other children sustained moderate injuries.
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