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 ...

Nader Moazami, (center) surgical director of heart transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, leads the team as a genetically modified pig heart is transplanted into a recently ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...