The 12-hour multi-organ transplant was completed at Melbourne's Austin Hospital early this morning.

Brendan Cole, 32, had been suffered worsening intestinal failure since childhood and has endured more than 30 operations.

Surgeons replaced his small intestine, liver, pancreas and duodenum, in an operation regarded as the most complex and risky of all transplant procedures.

SYDNEY-- Australian victims and their families have welcomed the conviction of the Indian-born surgeon once dubbed "Doctor Death", who Wednesday was awaiting sentence over the deaths of three patients.

Jayant Patel, 60, was found guilty by an Australian court on Tuesday of criminal negligence causing the deaths of three men during his time as a surgeon at Queensland's Bundaberg Base Hospital between 2003 and 2005.

He was also found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to a fourth man, Ian Vowles, after the marathon court case heard the surgeon had a "toxic ego" that drove him to operate needlessly and inexpertly on patients.

KARACHI: Another doctor fell prey to the ongoing wave of targeted killings on Thursday a few yards from his private clinic in Landhi, police said.

It was a fifth incident of doctors’ killing in recent weeks apart from a pathologist, who was killed a few days ago. In his early 50s, Dr Zahid Hussain was targeted, in what has now become a routine modus operandi of hit men in Karachi, by two men riding a motorcycle seconds after he left the clinic for home in his car.