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Thursday 2 August 2018

Donor, 53, meets the patient who received her HEART: Seriously-ill woman agreed to donate her healthy organ to another person so she could get new lungs as part of the extremely rare 'domino procedure'

Linda Karr, 55, of Berkeley, California, had a degenerative heart condition that left her in need of a heart transplant

Tammy Griffin, 53, of Happy Valley, Oregon, had cystic fibrosis, which was causing to struggle to breathe and needed new lungs

Doctors at Stanford University Hospital in California approached them with the chance to participate in a rare, domino procedure 

Griffin would receive the heart and lungs from a deceased donor and Griffin's healthy heart would go to KarrJust six weeks after the procedure was performed, Griffin was able to meet Karr and hear her old heart beat inside her chest

Their meeting is now the subject of a new painting titled Tammy and Linda being unveiled on Friday 

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