A groundbreaking study has shown that pig hearts could keep critically ill babies alive while they wait for a transplant.

A team from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the first in the world to study the use of genetically engineered pig hearts for infants waiting for heart transplantation.  The study was led by John ...

A CHLA heart surgeon presented the xenotransplant results in a plenary session at the International Society for Heart and ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Heart transplantation is used to treat heart failure. The first human-to-human heart transplant took place in South Africa in 1967. However, this surgical technique is not ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Heart transplantation is used to treat heart failure. The first human-to-human heart transplant took place in South Africa in 1967. However, this surgical technique is not ...

The titanium device, first dreamt up by Daniel Timms and his father, could replace traditional organ transplants altogether ...

who performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967, died today while on holiday in Cyprus. Barnard, who was 78, died at a hotel in the western resort of Paphos. A doctor called in by ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow ...

A medical team at King’s College Hospital London in Dubai successfully performed the city’s first ... child’s heart – a key step that paved the way for the successful liver transplant.

At the age of 35, she had a heart attack – and a year later, she had her first heart transplant. Over time, she developed cardiac allograft vasculopathy, or CAV. In 2019, doctors found Martin a ...

A 13-month-old infant successfully underwent liver transplant surgery — the city's first such intervention ... He was also diagnosed with a congenital heart defect (atrial septal defect).