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Kyiv was burning as Dr. Borys Todurov sped through the city in an ambulance, undeterred by the deep thuds of explosions and ...
Surgeons at Tampa General Hospital successfully performed the world’s first known bloodless heart and liver transplant on May 31. Doctors said the nine-hour operation was possible through close ...
The second patient to receive a pig heart in place of his own has died. He lived just six weeks, two weeks less than the first recipient. Lawrence Faucette, 58, had received a heart from a gene ...
Researchers have announced success from a pair of experimental pig-to-human heart transplant procedures completed on recently deceased human subjects who were kept on mechanical ventilation for ...
A human has received a titanium heart for the first time in medical history. The patient, 58, was implanted with the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) earlier this month as a bridge-to-heart ...
Clarke writes with rare emotional precision, guiding us through unbearable pain and extraordinary hope with the gentlest hand ...
BACKGROUND: Fontan circulatory failure (FCF) is a chronic state in palliated single ventricle heart disease with high morbidity and mortality rates, including heart failure, multisystem end-organ ...
Transplant surgeons at USF Health and Tampa General Hospital have successfully performed the world’s first recorded bloodless ...
Rookie receives late-night call about donor heart availability, prompting immediate team support from manager Stephen Vogt: ...
In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...
Medera and its subsidiary Novoheart have collaborated with scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic to develop mini-heart models for hypoplastic left ...
With xenotransplantation -- animal-to-human transplantation -- poised to address the global organ shortage crisis, a ...