In 2014, the first artificial heart transplantation procedure in the Sultanate was done by a cardiac surgery team led by Al Sabti, for a patient suffering from heart failure.[7] In April 2015, a cardiac surgery team of Sultan Qaboos University Hospital has managed to plant a valve inside a valve in the aorta and mitral valves through a catheter. A first-of-its-kind surgery in the world done on a pregnant woman.