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For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never ...
A team at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has performed the world’s first heart transplant with zero ischemic time ...
In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...
The titanium heart, invented by Daniel Timms, uses magnetic levitation technology with a single rotating disc to pump blood.
April is Donate Life Month, and there are currently 115,000 people living in America waiting for an organ transplant. Robert ...
Fewer than 80 triple organ transplants have been attempted in the United States, and for the first time, the rare procedure was successfully performed on Long Island.
A pediatric heart transplant had never been carried out ... who was part of the surgery team. The surgery was carried out on a teenage patient from Queens who had been working with Kleinmahon ...
Annette Tremlin, 68, who was one of the first people in the country to receive a non-beating heart transplant in June 2015, described how the surgery had allowed her to watch her grandchildren ...
The UAB Department of Surgery welcomes Rajamiyer Venkateswaran ... as a Professor in the Division of Transplantation and the Chief of Heart, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Lung Transplant. In the ...
Heart transplant patients who underwent a pioneering form of surgery have reunited with the medics who saved their lives to mark the 10th anniversary of the first operation of its kind. A group of 20 ...