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Azerbaijan: development of heart transplantation

This dossier follows Azerbaijan’s heart transplant programme and documented information on its activity and expansion.

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Central Customs Hospital in Baku in 2025.
Central Customs Hospital, Baku, December 2025. Healthcare illustration; this photograph does not show the hospital of the transplants discussed or the conference. — ChanisCaucasi / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — 22 décembre 2025, sans modification.

Where things stand

On 31 October 2026, Kamran Musayev reports four technically successful operations and calls for a lasting programme. Long-term follow-up is not documented.

Reported information

Azerbaijan: Musayev reports on the first heart transplants

Kamran Musayev, honorary chairman of the Cardiovascular Surgery Society, reported on 31 October 2026 that four heart transplants in Azerbaijan had been technically successful over a year. He was speaking at the TRANSPLANT 360° conference during Heart Transplantation Week.

Central Customs Hospital in Baku in 2025.
Central Customs Hospital, Baku, December 2025. Healthcare illustration; this photograph does not show the hospital of the transplants discussed or the conference. — ChanisCaucasi / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — 22 décembre 2025, sans modification.

Daily Baku and Report describe his aim of turning these initial operations into a sustainable programme able to treat more patients. Musayev presents the activity as a practical test of the donation and transplantation chain.

The reported technical success does not, by itself, establish recipients’ long-term survival or recovery. The sources consulted provide no precise timetable for expanding the programme.

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