Heart transplant News
Patrick Holland, aged 56, is the father to seven children and is still seeking a call from the hospital to get his heart transplant while struggling to find a place to stay in Seattle.
Researchers have found a virus in a pig heart used in the first animal-to-human transplant
A Maryland man died two months after the groundbreaking experimental transplant
They are not yet sure if it played any role in the man's death
The US man who had recently received a successful transplant of a 'porcine' heart is again making headlines.
David Bennett is said to have stabbed a man seven times in 1988.
The 57-year-old was also sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In what can be called a first-of-its-kind surgery, a man in the US has got a genetically modified pig heart in transplant. The 57-year-old man is doing well after the operation.
In what is dubbed as a 'first-of-its-kind surgery', the US surgeons have performed a successful transplant of a 'porcine' heart into an adult human with end-stage heart disease.
The first heart transplant in a human ever performed was by Hardy in 1964, using a chimpanzee heart, but the patient died within 2 hours. Here's a brief history of animal-to-human heart transplant
The 57-year-old Maryland resident had been deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant.
A journey which would have otherwise taken 30 minutes under regular conditions was made in six minutes.
In what is claimed to be the first human-to-human heart transplant in eastern India, surgeons in a private hospital in Kolkata on Monday transplanted the heart of a 21-year-old man on a 39-year-old patient.
Mansoor Ahmed is Pakistan's World Cup winning field hockey goalkeeper.
Quick response from a team of doctors here helped a 56-year-old patient get a new lease of life as the doctors carried out a heart transplant within three hours of harvesting from a donor in Jaipur.
A 38-year-old woman with pulmonary fibrosis has got a new lease of life after a successful lung transplant surgery.
The young woman had registered with Fortis hospital in Mulund, Maharashtra and was waiting for a transplant.
A donor's heart was successfully transported from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport to the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute on Thursday covering a distance of 18 km in 18 minutes.
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He and his teams also performed more than 118,000 open-heart operations.His wife, Louise Goldsborough Thomas Cooley, died just a few weeks earlier on October 21 at the age of 92.
Medics advised him to go for a transplant but as there were no organs available, he was fitted with a pacemaker and an artificial heart.
The green corridor was created from the airport to Global Hospital in Perumbakkam.
Zonal Director, Fortis Hospital, Dr S Narayani claimed that this is the second PaedCard transplant conducted in the state.
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