Duke Transplant Team Helps Pioneer Total Artificial Heart. A Graham man became the second person in the world to receive the device, which provides a bridge to transplant. ... The Duke heart ...

Baylor surgeons used an Intuitive da Vinci system to successfully perform what they say is the first U.S. robotic heart ...

The first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States was performed at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston in March this year, according to an announcement by the hospital released on ...

Lawrence Faucette and his wife Ann Faucette are shown at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2023, days before he received a transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart.

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center is currently the busiest heart transplant center in the world. This is the story of building the foundation for what the Center has become today — a narrative of ...

The world knows the achievements of Professor Christian Barnard - the first man to carry out a heart transplant in his native South Africa. It was 1967 at the height of apartheid. But behind all the ...

The operation was performed at the Red Cross Memorial Hospital in Cape Town on August 20 by a surgical team headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, the heart transplant pioneer, the hospital ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Dr. Norman Shumway, the first surgeon to perform a successful heart transplant operation in the United States, died Friday of skin cancer that spread to his lungs, Shumway, heart ...

Dr. Towbin is co-director of Memphis, Tenn.-based Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute, as well as medical director of cardiomyopathy, heart failure and heart transplant. He was ...

Renowned Indian heart surgeon Dr K M Cherian, who was instrumental in several pioneering cardiac surgeries in India including the first successful coronary artery bypass and heart transplant ...

Lawrence Faucette and his wife Ann Faucette are shown at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2023, days before he received a transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart.