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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…
ANI
Heart transplants declined sharply during Covid-19 pandemic
Researchers have found that the number of heart transplants is declining sharply during the Covid-1…
A 39-year-old dad who suffered sudden heart failure and coded for 45 minutes survived against the odds - and just received America's most advanced artificial heart
Matthew Moore, of North Carolina, happened to be in the right place at the right time to be first r…
Anna Medaris Miller
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
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…
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
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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
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
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
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
My shortness of breath from congestive heart failure was shrugged off by my doctor I was told to lose weight. Now I've learned to advocate for myself.
My doctor blamed my breathlessness on my weight when I needed a heart transplant — now I've l…
Dawn Levitt
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
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
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…
Sean Kane
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 …