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Indian heart beats inside Pakistani woman, 19-year-old from Karachi undergoes heart transplant in Chennai

A 19-year-old patient from Karachi in Pakistan, Ayesha Rashid, underwent a successful heart transpl…

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Heart transplants declined sharply during Covid-19 pandemic

Researchers have found that the number of heart transplants is declining sharply during the Covid-1…

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Recipient of first pig-heart transplant dies 2 months after surgery

The University of Maryland Medical Center didn't give an official cause of death, but did say the h…

Rebecca Cohen   


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Three out of four harvested organs in the southern Indian city of Chennai went to foreigners

It is no secret that India’s healthcare sector is desperately shoddy, at least for those who lack…

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China is having a heart transplant

"All of these features match those in the late 2012-early 2013 period when there were allegations t…

Linette Lopez   


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Alaska man misses lifesaving heart transplant surgery after winter storm cancels flight to Seattle, report says

Patrick Holland had eight hours to get from Alaska to Seattle, Washington, for a heart transplant. …

Joshua Zitser   


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Hearts from Covid-positive donors appear safe for transplantation: Study

Donor hearts from people who were Covid-positive appeared to be as safe for transplantation as thos…

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A healthy 35-year-old woman went into heart failure moments after delivering her baby, and now she's waiting for a transplant

Zuleyma Santos had a healthy pregnancy and no heart disease history. Her husband fought cancer as s…

Anna Medaris Miller   


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New MRI technique set to transform heart transplant care

The days of heart transplant survivors undergoing invasive biopsies could soon be over after a new …

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A 57-year-old man receives a pig heart in a groundbreaking transplant to save him from heart disease

For the first time, doctors successfully used a pig heart in a human heart transplant to save a Mar…

Rebecca Cohen,Andrea Michelson   


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2 more gene-edited pig hearts were just successfully transplanted into humans an early sign that pig transplants could really work

Two humans received pig hearts at NYU this summer. Both patients were already brain-dead and on ven…

Hilary Brueck   


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A man who survived a pig heart transplant contracted a viral infection tied to pigs and died two months after the surgery

"At Day 45, he looked really funky," the doctor who performed the transplant said. "Something happe…

Azmi Haroun   


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The first pig-heart transplant patient was denied a human heart after failing to follow doctors' orders

Patients who miss appointments or forget medication may be denied a spot on the organ waiting list.…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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A woman dismissed her exhaustion as anxiety, asthma, and menopause. She actually needed a heart transplant and brain surgery.

Ann Ramirez Dudas was 48 when she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. She would need a new…

Andrea Michelson   


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Why organ transplants are so expensive in the US

Narrator: According to a report published by the consulting firm Milliman, the average billed cost …

Jack Houston   


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A Boston hospital is the latest to deny an organ transplant to a patient who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19

Vaccination requirements are not uncommon for transplant patients, since they take medications that…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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A baboon lived for over two years with a transplanted pig heart - and humans could be next

Perhaps the biggest challenge was getting the host body to accept a new organ from a different spec…

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The recipient of a historic pig-heart transplant stabbed a man years ago. Ethicists say criminal history shouldn't affect who gets lifesaving organs.

The stabbing left its victim paralyzed, and raises ethical questions about who deserves lifesaving …

Morgan McFall-Johnsen