The idea of transplanting animal organs into humans is not entirely new--some of the first efforts at heart transplantation in the 1960s placed a sheep's heart in the chest of a man. And until ...

To treat this life-threatening condition, surgeons may perform a heterotopic or “piggyback” heart transplant. During this procedure, a second heart is grafted on the patient’s existing heart to help ...

Saudi Arabia's King Faisal Specialist Hospital has achieved a medical milestone by performing the world's first fully robotic ...

The innovation is hoped to shift heart transplant surgery away from traditional chest-opening procedures, which have long ...

Linda Morgan’s transplant journey has inspired many and will continue to do so as she shares her story with the world.

John-Henry Lee was on the transplant list for six months after being born with a rare heart condition A 6-year-old boy couldn’t wait to tell everyone about his new donor heart after being on the ...

Stanford University Medical Center has received some recent press coverage centered around a controversial decision to provide a heart transplant to a convicted felon serving time in the ...

He had a heart transplant performed last year on Sept. 21. With the Alaska Heart Run shifting to the fall starting this year, ...

A heart transplant is surgery to take out a diseased heart and replace it with a donor heart. The doctor will make a cut in the skin over your breastbone (sternum). The cut is called an incision. Then ...

During the transplant, the surgeon uses a "piggyback" technique, which preserves your own inferior vena cava. The vena cava is a large vein that returns blood to the heart from the abdominal organs ...

Please verify your email address. Piggyback is a fairly new feature in Fall Guys, which might need to be clarified for some returning or new players. The premise is simple: hop on another player ...

OK, so there's really nothing humorous or easy about heart transplant surgery. Last year in the U.S., almost 800 men, women, and children died while waiting for suitable donor hearts. But despite ...