Yes. Sometimes patients will receive
heart or liver transplants but die
anyway within a few weeks and, in
very rare cases, the donated organ
was still healthy enough to be worth
re-transplanting to a new patient.
In 2012, a 27-year old man from the
US received a kidney transplant
but then had it removed again two
weeks later because the disease he
was suffering from was damaging
the kidney. Doctors rescued it in
time and gave it to a 67-year old man
instead, returning the first patient
to dialysis treatment.