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Learn more from WebMD about heart transplants, including who is eligible, how they are performed, and the outlook for heart transplant recipients.
Doctors at Duke Children's Hospital were able to perform three life-saving surgeries after one donor heart became available.
11-year-old receives living donor heart valve to replace artificial one in breakthrough surgery Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery.
Learn more from WebMD about heart transplant surgery, including who is eligible,what is involved before and after the procedure, and survival rates.
Surgeons at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson last week performed history's first recorded transplant of a heart into a human being. At first they refused to identify either ...
Over 37 years ago, when Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery on Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old South African grocer with chronic heart disease, science lit up a way ...
Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on an adult patient – the first reported in the United States. Using a surgical robot, lead surgeon ...
Janeen Deal, a JD Vance relative, considers it an outrage that Cincinnati Children's Hospital won't put her unvaccinated 12-year-old on a heart transplant list.
Surgeons in Taiwan successfully performed a heart transplant with zero ischemic time, improving outcomes by keeping the donor heart beating.
The 25-year-old recently shared that he went into a 14-hour heart transplant surgery and now has a brand new heart.
Landon will likely need another heart in his life, Michelle added. Previous to his transplant surgery, Landon had undergone three open-heart surgeries in his life. Michelle has created a spotfund ...
Back home, Dr. Barnard continued transplant research while practicing heart surgery and running a family. (With two children, he was best known in South Africa, until last week, as the father of a ...