heart transplants

Bizarre꧒ personality changes reported in or𝓀gan transplant patients

Recent research has found a correlation between transpla💖nt surgery and personality changes. 

Ex-NBAer, 'Survivor' contestant has successful heart transplant after finding donor: 'Perfect fit!'

Former NBA center and “Survivor” contestant Scot Pollard underwent a procedure 🌄for his heart transplant, his wife, Dawn, wrote in a post on X. 

♛ꦏ NBA cult hero needs unique life-saving heart transplant

In new photos his wife ꦏshared, she said the one-time NBA champion has been through a flurry of operations and tests as he struggles from a genetic heart issue.

Second-ever pig heart transplant recipient dies 6 weeks after surgery: 'We will miss him tremendously'

The patien🌃t, Lawrence Faucette, 58, only began showing signs that his body was rejecting the heart in the few days before his Oct. 30 passing.

Dying man saved by second-ever pig heart transplant is alive one month later: 'I'll work it out'

Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant because of other health problems when doctors at 🍒the University of Maryland School of Medici♔ne offered...

Second-ever pig heart transplant saves dying man: 'Now I have hope'

Two days after the medical miracle, the patient — a 58-year-old Navy veteran who wasn’t eligible for a tra💛ditional heart transplant — was cracking jokes and able to sit in...

Australian mo🃏m denied heart transplant due to her COVID-19 vaccination status🌟

Vicki Derderian relies on a vent𝄹ricular assist deviceꦺ to keep her heart functioning after it failed in 2020.

Transplant toddler cheered: 'Live-saving surgery on heart size of a thumb'

Hospital staff showered a toddler with applause and bubbles as he prepared to undᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚergo a long-awaited heart transplant.

Canceled⛄ flight to Seattle costs Alaska man chanceඣ for heart transplant

The♌ severe winter storm that has left US air travel in a frenzy had a particularly devastating effect 🍎on an Alaskan man who was unable to receive a life-saving heart. 

I keep my old heart in a plastic bag after transplant — here’s why ๊

A New Zealand woman has revealed the heartwarming reason that she keeps her old heart🍬 in a plastic bag.

I've had two heart transplants and now I'm becoming a doctor: 'I go for what I want'

At 31 years old, Gianna Paniagua is one of the longest living infant heart transplant recipients in the count﷽ry.

I was born with half a heart and it looks like 'cookie dough'

Jessica Manning of Ne🅰w Zealand was diagnosed with several heart defects at birth and has undergon🍨e 200 surgeries since age 3.

'Brave and noble patient': Man who got first pig heart transplant dies months after procedure

David Bennett, a 57-year-oldꦯ handyman, had received the genetically modiꦅfied pig heart during a last-ditch operation to save his life at the University of Maryland Medical Center on Jan. 7.

 Baby gets first-of-its-kind heart transplan🅷t meant to fight rejection ꦍ

The research is in very early stages and just one possible method scientists are testing in hop🌱es of inducing what’s called immune tolerance to a transplant.

German researchers to start𝐆 breeding pigs for human heart transplants

Eckhard Wolf, a🍃 scientist at Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, said his team aimed to have the new species, modified from the Auckland Island breed, ready for transplant trials by...

Cocaine was the secret ingrಌedient in pig-to-human heart transplant

 Doctors hope to see more of the party drug in transplant hospitals: “It will be a great advance if this process is approved by the re𝐆gulatory agencies."

Woman branded 'lazy' over chronic fatigue had secret deadly condition

A young woman's constant need to nap eluded her doctors until they discovered an "incredibly rare" heart condition was behind it — leaving her with a 20% chance of long-🦩term...

🐭  Maryland surgeons successfully transplant pig heart into human patient

Dr. Bartley Griffith transp🐷lanted a pig heart into David Bennett, who knew there was no guarantee the experiment would work but was willing to try. ꦚ

�� Mom listens to dead son’s heartbeat 6 months after 💟transplant

“That’s Cody in so🐬mebody else’s body. That’s Cody’s heart.” An Ohio woman, Valerie Stebel, serendipitously met the person who received her son’s heart through an anonymous organ donation. The grievinꦇg...