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 ...

Less than a year after the first-ever transplant of a pig heart into a human patient, doctors are reporting that the heart showed unexpected changes in its electrical system before the recipient ...

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and ...

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 ...

Harvill compared the situation to the first human heart transplant in 1967. That patient died after 18 days, but thousands of such transplants are now performed in the U.S. each year.

Israel celebrated its first successful artificial heart transplant at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on May 25. Four days later, a second successful artificial heart transplant took ...

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 ...

With xenotransplantation -- animal-to-human transplantation -- poised to address the global organ shortage crisis, 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 ...