heart transplants

Heart Transplants: A Brief History

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Mon, 11/16/2009 - 01:35

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


 

AHA: Gender-Matched Heart Transplants Boost Survival Success

MedPage Today Surgery  Fri, 11/14/2008 - 15:14

NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Heart transplant recipients from same-sex donors have modestly greater chances of short- and long-term survival, researchers found.


 

Heart transplants fare better from same sex

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Wed, 11/12/2008 - 23:16

NEW ORLEANS -- Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex.


 

Study: Same-sex heart transplants are better

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 11/12/2008 - 13:09

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex....