Stanford University Medical Center has received some recent press coverage centered around a controversial decision to provide a heart transplant to a convicted felon serving time in the ...

We were waiting for another child to lose their life to give our son a second chance. Life and hope and unimaginable pain ...

To help more patients qualify for a transplant, they offer expanded heart transplant criteria and are the fastest list-to-transplant site in the Philadelphia region. Local Spotlight is joined by Dr.

When a patient with heart failure has received a new heart and survives—the transplantation is deemed a success. However, health care overlooks heart recipients who suffer from long-term and ...

That operation allowed a medical team to put a new healthy, beating heart in his chest only 10 days later. “I consider it to be one of the bigger, biggest blessings. I thank God every day for it,” ...

“The first couple of weeks in hospital [after his transplant surgery] I cried a lot thinking about it, lying there listening to your heart and you think about that family that had to make that ...

Using an innovative risk score assessment score, heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City say they can accurately predict whether patients being assessed for kidney transplant ...

This includes all spectrums of heart failure including acute and chronic heart failure, critical care and shock, mechanical circulatory support devices, heart transplantation and pulmonary ...

Louis B. Smith Jr., shown during his days in the Army, says he’s grateful his doctors were able to preserve his chest tattoo during his heart transplant. Northwestern Medicine Share Louis B.

Eventually, she was told a heart transplant was necessary. However, because Romero then weighed nearly 300 pounds, she didn’t qualify for a transplant. “It was a journey I don’t wish on my ...

In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a ...