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 ...

In 2023, 9-year-old Thomas Norris was named the 100th heart transplant at Norton Children's Hospital. "He's doing great. He's thriving. He's growing and gaining weight. He's back at school and we're ...

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

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 ...

Heart Transplant Patients from Socioeconomically Deprived Areas Face Higher Risk for Postoperative Complications, Earlier Death Than Others Sep. 30, 2024 — Heart transplant patients who live in ...

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 ...

Oklahoma’s pediatric heart transplant program has been dormant since the 1990s, but that changed last Sunday. Oklahoma Children’s Hospital has spent a decade building its child heart surgery wing so ...