Heart transplant News

Photo: Heart transplant patient holds her dead heart in her hand

The photo of a transplant patient holding her heart in her hands after a successful transplant surgery has been posted online. The photo shows a woman with a medical mask covering her face, holding her old dead heart while another beats in her chest.

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World's smallest artificial heart gives infant new lease on life

Doctors implanted the smallest ever artificial heart into a 16-month-old baby, making it possible for the baby to survive for 13 days before the infant received permanent organ donation.

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Video: Shaun Wilson-Miller's tragic farewell message goes viral

Melbourne - A terminally ill teenager has been catapulted to Internet stardom after he accidentally posted to YouTube a farewell message. Doctors had told him his body rejected a second heart transplant and that he has only a short time to live.

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Dick Cheney shows heart during speech

Dick Cheney has returned to politics just three weeks after receiving a new heart and reportedly gave a long speech prompting a thunder of applause.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney receives new heart

Washington - Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering in hospital following a heart transplant on Saturday. Mr. Cheney, 71, waited 20 months for a donor heart.

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Freeze-dried heart valve structures to store, transplant

The biological scaffolds of heart valves with cellular materials removed can be freeze-dried and stored for transplanting later as tissue-engineered replacement valves, Leibniz University and Hannover Medical School researchers claimed.

In the Media by Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins

Op-Ed: Mexican medics drop heart destined for transplant

Mexico - International media outlets are reporting that two medics in Mexico carrying a transplant-bound heart stepped off a helicopter, stumbled, and dumped the cooler and its contents onto the street.

In the Media by Elizabeth Batt

Scientists grow live heart in lab from stem cells

In a major breakthrough for heart transplant availability, and for organ transplants in general, scientists have successfully grown a living heart from stem cells.

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Local Toronto girl having fundraiser for Sick Kids Hospital Special

Toronto - Little girls are supposed to play dress up. For little Zoë, 6, dress up includes wearing masks to protect her from germs most days. Zoë was born with Hypo-plastic Left Heart Syndrome.

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The heart transplant funded by UK's National Health Service Special

Right now in the United States, the current debate on universal health care has caused town hall meetings to become shouting matches and lobby groups to take special interests in the health care systems of other countries, particularly England.

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