Reporter who accused surgeon of experimentation told to reveal sources

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7536.258-e

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Michael Leidig

Vienna

A Swiss newspaper that reported that a top surgeon had deliberately transplanted a heart with the wrong blood group as an “experiment” has been ordered to reveal its sources by a Swiss court.

The Sunday edition of the country's most respectable newspaper the Neue Züercher Zeitung reported last July that the chief surgeon at Zurich University Hospital, Marko Turina, had deliberately transplanted a heart with the wrong blood group into patient Rosemarie Voser to attempt a medical breakthrough.

Ms Voser died three days after the operation in April 2005, at the age of 57, after spending a year on an organ donation waiting list. During the operation, she was given …