New Delhi [India], August 24 (ANI): Union Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday was moved to learn about a 15-year-old girl donor who donated her organs to six people before dying.
New Delhi [India], August 24 (ANI): Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr RML Hospital on Wednesday conducted first heart transplant on a 32-year-old woman, said a statement by the hospital.
New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): A 15-year-old girl who died in a gruesome road accident on August 15, saved the lives of six people, including a woman from Bihar's Bhagalpur with her organs.
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): Unlike other organs, the heart cannot heal itself after injury. Heart disease is the top cause of mortality in the U.S and is particularly deadly. For this reason, tissue engineering will be crucial for the development of cardiac medicine, ultimately leading t
Washington [US], July 13 (ANI): According to new research, white children's six-month mortality was less than half that of black children who underwent heart transplant surgery for the first time.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 11 (ANI/PNN): Masina Heart Institute created history by performing a successful heart transplant on a nine-year-old girl who was suffering from Heart Failure due to Dilated Cardiomyopathy. This surgery was conducted by a team of doctors, led by Dr Zainulabe
Suita [Japan], January 23 (ANI): The human heart, the size of a fist, located just behind and slightly left of the breastbone, tirelessly beats an average of 100,000 times a day. However, conditions that stop the heart from pumping blood efficiently can cause serious problems and ultimately
New Delhi [India], December 11 (ANI): A green corridor was created to transport a beating heart from a private hospital in Gurugram to BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi to perform a life-saving heart transplant surgery on a 50-year-old man.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 25 (ANI/PRNewswire): Heart harvested from a brain-dead person in Kochi was flown to Chennai airport in 1 hour 5 mins time and transported to Rela Hospital through a green corridor in less than 5 minutes for a heart transplant surgery. The recipient, a 51
Boston (Massachusetts) [US], May 3 (ANI): A new study, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, found that heart transplantation using donation after cardiac death (DCD) with normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) is feasible in the United States.
Minnesota [US], April 2 (ANI): Traditionally, surgeons transplant the heart first followed by the liver. But Mayo Clinic heart transplant team decided to reverse the order for highly sensitised patients in the hopes that the liver would absorb some of the patient's antibodies, removing them
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 17 (ANI/BusinessWire India): A historic feat for Rela Hospital. A large team of heart transplant experts and the cardiac specialist team from Rela KIMS Heart and Lung Transplant Institute (including surgeons, anaesthetists, perfusionists and nurses), gave