After 21 years of service, U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Louis B. Smith Jr. found himself battling a new enemy: heart failure.

The ink on his chest spells out a lyric from Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” a song his father introduced him to when he was young.

When a patient with heart failure has received a new heart and survives—the transplantation is deemed a success. However, ...

When Holly Hargrave donated her lamb to help raise money for Lexi Anderson's heart transplant, an inspired crowd drove the bidding sky high Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award winning journalist who ...

A Charleston woman was always short of breath and suffered from an undertreated heart problem. A new device at MUSC has her ...

Eventually, she was told a heart transplant was necessary. However, because Romero then weighed nearly 300 pounds, she didn’t qualify for a transplant. “It was a journey I don’t wish on my ...

A nightmare scenario played out at a Kentucky hospital as a transplant donor woke up on the operating table just as doctors were preparing to remove his heart, according to witnesses. Thomas T.J ...

Stephan Crudup, 51, of Tempe, received the artificial transplant to address his severe heart failure. He then underwent a heart transplant after living with the temporary solution for nearly a ...

Still, more than 4200 adult patients are on the lung transplant waitlist in the United States, a steady count that has been ...

This type of transplantation is particularly challenging since, unlike organ transplants that involve just one type of tissue, like a kidney or heart, VCA involves transplanting a complex ...

A kidney transplant gives you a healthy kidney from another person ... another life-threatening disease such as cancer, or severe heart or lung disease. Your doctor will put the new kidney in your ...

Kidney transplantation from donors with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to recipients with HIV is an emerging practice. It has been performed since 2016 under the U.S. congressional HIV Organ ...