In new procedure, human heart never stops pumping, from donor to recipient. Dec. 8, 2010— -- An experimental new heart transplant procedure could change the way transplants are performed in ...

Can we reboot the human heart? Yes, we can, and this could save many dying babies and adults who are waiting for a transplant ...

A Maryland man has lived for three days with a pig heart beating inside his chest. The surgery, at the University of Maryland, marks the first time a gene-edited pig has been used as an organ ...

Although revolutionary, beating-heart surgery will not totally replace traditional bypass surgery, Borst notes. "For many candidates, the conventional operation will remain the better choice.

It may not have been put into practice just yet, but it looks like a new robotic-assisted system could one day let surgeons use a surgical robot (like Da Vinci system pictured at left) to operate ...

A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the animal's body, allowing researchers to expedite the ...

Dr. Julius Guccione, a 50-year-old cardiac researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was mesmerized the first time he saw a virtual image of a beating heart. He'd been using math ...

A team of surgeons at NYU Langone successfully transplanted genetically engineered pig hearts into two patients who had recently been declared deceased from brain death. The procedures, known as ...

The human heart being replaced was, of course, an ill one. It was dilated from being unable to pump properly. The cardiac chambers to which the pig heart would be attached were large.

The human heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute, more than 86,000 times a day, 35 million times a year. A single beat pushes about 6 tablespoons of blood through the body. An organ that works that ...