The first joint heart and liver transplant has been carried out at Turin's Molinette Hospital on a 38-year-old patient with a heart condition who had previously gone through multiple heart surgeries, medical sources said Sunday. No such joint transplant has been previously reported in Italy and in Europe and there are just a few known cases in the United States. The patient, who is from Rome, was on a waiting list for an urgent transplant due to her critical condition, which is managed by the National Transplant Centre, in cooperation with Piedmont's regional centre Source: Ansa News Agency