Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old United States veteran, was dying of heart failure and had explored nearly every avenue for a life-saving transplant. Amidst the uncertainty, a...
Durham, North Carolina — Most transplanted hearts come from brain-dead donors, but new research shows that another approach could be equally successful, increasing the number of...
In a recent study published in Journal of the American College of Cardiologyinvestigators investigated the use of donors infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), donor and...
Editor’s Note: For the latest news and guidance on COVID-19, see Medscape’s article. Coronavirus Resource Center. A new study warns against using donor hearts infected with...
Dr. Doris Taylor is developing an innovative way to design personalized hearts using a patient’s own stem cells. CNN’s medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more....
The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig died. Two months after the groundbreaking experiment, a hospital in Maryland, where the surgery was...
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