An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

A heart from a deceased donor was transplanted into 10-year-old Hend Almesafri, who paid it forward by then providing her ...

More than half a century after the world’s first heart transplant, scientists are finding fascinating ways to improve the ...

In orthotopic cardiac transplant (OCT), the native heart is replaced with the denervated donor heart. In heterotopic heart transplant (HHT), a less common procedure, the recipient heart and its ...

She also is a heart transplant recipient, stroke and cancer survivor, and lives with paralysis from the waist down. She’s a testament to how important organ donation is. Across the U.S., at any ...

Editor’s Note: The podcast CNN 5 Good Things shares the bright side of life from all over the globe. You can listen to episodes here. When she was 3 weeks old, the left side of Addison McArthur ...

(CNN) — When she was 3 weeks old, the left side of Addison McArthur’s heart stopped functioning, and she was put on the top of British Columbia’s transplant waiting list. Now, the Vancouver ...