Traditionally, heart surgeons readying for a transplant, prepare a heart the same way. “Stop the heart in the donor, procure it, put it on ice, then put it in a cooler,” explained University of ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...