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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.
Dorothy Jacobs, who played a crucial role in South African history by granting permission for her coloured husband's heart to ...
The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Surgeons at Tampa General Hospital and USF Health completed the world's first recorded bloodless heart-liver transplant.
After receiving a new heart in December 2023, Turner learned about the challenges faced by patients traveling from out-of-state hospitals.