A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools could help save more patients who need heart transplants by making better use of donor hearts that are currently discarded, according to research ...

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 shows ...

Heart transplant surgeon Raymond Lee, MD, explains what patients can expect after a heart transplant—including how long the heart will last. The average lifespan of a transplanted heart is about 10 ...

When pediatric cardiac surgeons evaluate options for their smallest patients with the most severe cardiac birth defects, they don’t have a lot of good choices. For conditions such as truncus ...

Forty years ago, all eyes were on Kentucky as "Baby Calvin" made history as he received the state's first pediatric heart ...

Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center completed the first fully robotic heart transplant, a breakthrough procedure that could transform the future of heart surgery. The patient, Tony Ibarra, ...

In a groundbreaking moment for American medicine, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center have completed the first fully robotic heart transplant ever performed in the United States. In order to ...

A former Wales rugby international described the "crazy" and "very special" moment he held his own heart after a life-saving ...

New Delhi, A Delhi hospital has successfully performed a rare combined liver transplants and complex cardiac surgeries on two critically ill patients suffering from advanced liver failure and serious ...