heart transplant

When Joclyn Krevat got her lifesaving heart transplant at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, she thought her surgery was covered by insurance. Then the bills arrived.

A Long Island woman who lost her chance at a heart transplant when she was jailed for shoplifting has only weeks to live and is asking to be freed before she dies.

Diane McCloud’s lawyer will be in court Tuesday to plead that his client be released into a hospice so she doesn’t spend her final days in lockup.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Courtney Montgomery's heart was failing fast, but the 16-year-old furiously refused when her doctors, and her mother, urged a transplant....

African Americans do significantly worse after a heart transplant than Caucasians, but not because they were getting racially mismatched organs, researchers said.

Twenty-five years after Baby Fae's death following the world's first animal-to-human infant heart transplant, TIME looks back at the history of the procedure

WHEELING, W.Va. (MedPage Today) -- Doctors have found that a baby's severely damaged heart eventually recovered fully after a donor heart was grafted onto it, allowing the second organ to be removed later.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it comes to hearts, Taneal Wilson won the lottery. A small pump implanted to keep the 31-year-old alive long enough for a heart transplant somehow helped Wilson's ravaged heart completely recover instead....