A nightmare scenario played out at a Kentucky hospital as a transplant donor woke up on the operating table just as doctors ...

A young Graham, N.C., father became the second person in the world to receive a BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) as a ...

The early focus of transplantation was technical -- replacing lost limbs and teeth, reconstructive surgery, transferring a body part from one animal to another. By the 20th century, the focus had ...

A team at Cincinnati Children's hospital performed a lung-then-heart transplant on a 15-year-old patient with Castleman disease. The organs were transported and transplanted separately.

A Phoenix Banner Health made history in August, being the third hospital in the world to successfully implant the BiVACOR ...

In 2023, 9-year-old Thomas Norris was named the 100th heart transplant at Norton Children's Hospital. "He's doing great. He's ...

Elise McKinney North Carolina college senior Hannah Ackman has an unexpectedly "special bond" with the toddler she babysits: They both had successful heart ... that might be transplant-related ...

The 8-year-old heart transplant candidate got a hankering for the briny bite once she started preparing for her procedure. Many cardiac patients are on fluid restriction, which can cause them to ...

Two fundamentally different surgical approaches to liver transplantation exist: (1) orthotopic (OLT), and (2) heterotopic (HLT). In OLT, the patient's diseased liver is completely removed and ...

(Photo Credit: Wendy Hiller Gee/Eric Olson/WebMD Ignite) A bone marrow transplant can treat or cure certain diseases and some types of cancer. It does this by replacing damaged bone marrow with ...

It is just as safe and effective for people with HIV in need of kidney transplantation to get their organ from donors who are also HIV positive as it is from donors who are not infected with the virus ...