More babies and children survive the wait for a heart transplant than in the past, but improvements are due to better medical care, not changes to wait-list rules, a new study finds. The method used ...

The American Heart Association is providing $4.5 million in funding to establish a new research network as the first part of a multi-phase initiative aimed at improving heart transplant outcomes ...

Waiting for a heart is "like walking down a dark road and not knowing what's coming down the path," said Lenn Catley, who received a heart transplant at Ascension Seton Medical Center almost two years ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

Socioeconomic disadvantage influences the risk of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in the months and years following surgery. The risk of developing cardiac allograft vasculopathy was mitigated with ...

Lawrence Faucette, 58, received a pig heart at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2023 to treat his end-stage heart failure. He lived for 40 days before choosing to forgo additional ...

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At the 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), held from April 22–25 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Toronto, ON, ...