OK, so there's really nothing humorous or easy about heart transplant surgery. Last year in the U.S., almost 800 men, women, and children died while waiting for suitable donor hearts. But despite ...

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 ...

The heart transplant program at University of Utah Health has a long tradition of excellence. Choosing which heart transplant team to entrust with your care is one of the most important decisions you ...

A heart transplant is surgery to take out a diseased heart and replace it with a donor heart. The doctor will make a cut in the skin over your breastbone (sternum). The cut is called an incision. Then ...

US doctors say a young boy called Easton has made medical history by becoming the first person in the world to receive a combined heart and thymus transplant. The pioneering procedure was done to ...

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 ...

A Graham man became the second person in the world to receive the device, which provides a bridge to transplant A young Graham, N.C., father became the second person in the world to receive a BiVACOR ...

A four-year-old girl who had a heart transplant last year has fulfilled her dream of becoming a firefighter. Beatrix Adamson-Archbold, from Burnopfield, in County Durham, had her transplant in ...

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 our comprehensive one-year advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship program, you will gain robust comprehensive inpatient and outpatient training in the specialty of heart ...