Qatar has reached a major healthcare milestone with the successful completion of the country’s first heart transplant. The surgery was performed at the Heart Hospital of Hamad Medical ...

The mortality rate associated with valve replacement is “worse than the mortality of heart transplant.” That’s why Douglas Overbey, MD, MPH, from the Duke University Medical Center in Durham ...

As Richelle Murray swims laps in her local pool, she can breathe more easily than she has for a long time. "I feel free. I love it, life is good," she said. The 63-year-old spent decades living ...

Born blue due to lack of oxygen — "I looked like a Smurf," she tells PEOPLE — she was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect when ... would likely need a heart transplant.

A 10-year-old awaiting a heart transplant in Cleveland gets a heartwarming surprise father-daughter dance at the hospital.

In advanced heart failure, doctors carefully consider a patient's condition and attempt a variety of medications and treatment before recommending a transplant. (Methodist Healthcare.) The ...

The only thing that could help him was a heart transplant. Waiting for a heart, Catley said, is "like walking down a dark road and not knowing what's coming down the path." On June 30, Catley ...

An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to survive more than 100 days with an artificial titanium heart as he waited to receive a donor transplant. The ...

Developed by Australian biomedical engineer Daniel Timms, the titanium heart device is being used as a stopgap until patients can undergo transplant surgery with a donor heart. BiVACOR A man in ...

Stanford University Medical Center has received some recent press coverage centered around a controversial decision to provide a heart transplant to a convicted felon serving time in the ...

He underwent an eight-hour-long human heart transplant on March 4 and 5, his mother, Ashley Stanger, said Wednesday. On Monday, Lincoln and his mother and father, Connecticut State Police Det.

Doctors hope it could eventually negate the need for human heart donors entirely. Renowned cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon Paul Jansz performed the operation at St Vincent's Hospital and ...