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Kateryna Mamedova had the chance to embrace the transplant patient who received her late husband’s heart -- and to hear his ...
When former Ukrainian soldier Aslan Mamedov was declared brain dead following a car accident in 2024, his wife honored his wishes to donate his organs to save others' lives. Mamedov's heart was ...
Rep. Peoples-Stokes introduced the bipartisan HEART Act to repeal the state ban on registering at multiple transplant centers ...
That’s what Sergio Arias Cestoni, the recipient of a rare lung, heart, and liver transplant procedure at Northwell's North ...
A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the ...
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 ...
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.
Earlier this month, doctors identified a matching donor heart, and the patient returned for a full, successful transplant surgery. His case marked the first time a patient has been allowed to ...
Merv Wiseman of North Harbour, Placentia Bay, known for over three decades of marine safety advocacy in Newfoundland and Labrador, will soon travel to Toronto to wait for a double lung transplant.
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 ...
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 ...
The medical team behind the procedure declared it an “unprecedented clinical success” on Wednesday, following the man’s survival with the implant for over 100 days before undergoing a donor heart ...