Lawrence Faucette, 58, had received a heart from a gene-edited pig on Sept. 20 after his own heart began to fail. He was not a candidate for a human heart transplant because his medical condition ...

To transplant a pig heart into a human, some major challenges have to be addressed, Dickfeld said: immune system rejection of the organ, infection and the possibility of abnormal heart rhythms.

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 ...

Scot Pollard underwent a heart transplant in February 2024. Earlier this year, the former NBA star, 50, connected with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Dorothy Jacobs, who played a crucial role in South African history by granting permission for her coloured husband's heart to ...