Two patients are recovering well after receiving lifesaving procedure, which installs a NIS 2.1 million mechanical heart to ...

Each woman suffered the same rare heart disease, but at different times and with different surgeries, one more complicated ...

Three genes largely responsible for making sugars that a human body would consider foreign ... One pioneer of heart-transplant surgery said, “We were excited about sewing in the heart, which ...

Procedures like these are possible because medical teams can stop a patient's heart, pump their blood with a machine during ...

Ralph Lee's heart ... after surgery. Because my chest had been split open, I felt like I was about to die when I had to cough or sneeze. The pillow is pretty firm, and pressing it to my body ...

Inventive, ingenious and daring surgery took another step last week toward the ultimate goal of replacing human hearts hopelessly ... implant of an artificial heart,” but it incorporated famed ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to design the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human.

Margaret Van Bruggen’s family had just 24 hours to decide whether to let Duke surgeons perform a heart-valve-transplant ...

An aneurysm causes the aortic wall — the aorta is the largest artery in the body — to weaken or bulge. A severe aortic ...