For VUMC, modern cardiac surgery began in 1971, when the institution recruited three pivotal figures: Harvey Bender, MD, to ...

Dec. 8, 2010— -- An experimental new heart transplant procedure could change the way transplants are performed in the U.S. Instead of stopping a donor heart and putting it on ice before ...

Surgeons have developed two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die ...

Duke Health has pioneered a world's-first technique that could expand the donor pool for pediatric heart transplants in the U ...

From the procedure to its success rate, Dr Santosh Kumar Dora, Senior Cardiologist, Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai explains everything you need to know about heart transplant. Written by Arushi ...

A team at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health successfully developed and performed the world’s first on-table heart reanimation for a 3-month-old patient earlier this year. The new technique enables ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Doctors at Duke University Hospital performed a heart transplant using a procedure that could drastically expand the amount of organ donations available to patients in need. Jacob ...

Owen Monroe was 18 days old when he made history, becoming the first person in the world to receive a partial heart transplant. His groundbreaking surgery, performed in 2022, ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Reporter's Notebook by KCAL9's Stephanie Abrams: Here's a truly heart warming transplant story. Rob Evans has been waiting nearly four years for a new heart. His wife Gail ...

O ver 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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Doctors at Duke University Hospital performed a heart transplant using a procedure that could drastically expand the amount of organ donations available to patients in need. Jacob ...