MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Every day we see new advancements in medicine and technology that are changing and literally saving lives. And one of those many advancements is happening regularly at Baptist Heart ...

An East Tennessee couple learned at a 20-week scan that their baby boy had a heart defect.

A specialized surgery at Duke Hospital saved the lives of three girls who now share an unbreakable bond. It's a story centered around one donor's family spring boarding the effort. Other WRAL Top ...

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 ...

UCSF Health has performed its first heart transplant for a patient with advanced heart failure who had received an artificial heart a few months earlier. The patient, 37, who lives in the Central ...

"I was scared to death because I didn't have a heart for months." A man surviving without a real heart got a lucky break -- UCSF completed its first successful artificial heart to donor heart ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

A new transplant procedure could be the answer to enhancing access and successful outcomes for patients in need of a new heart. Known as a beating-heart transplant, the process reduces the times a ...

She recalls that anxiety hung in the air once it became clear a donor was needed, though ...

Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a person who hated classical music developed a passion for the genre after ...