A new discovery could mean more donor hearts are available for heart transplant, giving more people a second chance at life. A new discovery by Mayo Clinic researchers could mean more donor hearts are ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

A new technique of on-table donor heart reanimation has potential to facilitate organ procurement when normothermic regional perfusion is not permitted. Successful case reports were reported for three ...

LINDEN, MI - At a heartfelt gathering in Linden, Gloria Kirshman and Carla Bussell met for the first time at Kirshman’s home. Both women share an extraordinary bond, having received life-saving organ ...

Patients with a durable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) who receive a heart transplant have less primary graft dysfunction (PGD) when a dedicated system, rather than traditional cold storage, ...

Researchers headed by teams at Michigan Medicine and Mayo Clinic have discovered how a molecular process that occurs when donor hearts are preserved in cold storage contributes to failure after ...

A heart transplant has given three-year-old Levi Williams from Hartsville, South Carolina, a new lease on life after receiving a heart from Parker Vasquez, another three-year-old whose family donated ...

Traci Townsend is celebrating a major milestone almost a year after she receive both a heart and kidney transplant from the ...