Dáithí's family posted on social media on Tuesday to say that he was "at the beginning of his recovery".

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they've completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

The hospital introduced a procedure designed to better preserve donor hearts and improve patient recovery.

A nine-year-old boy whose campaigning helped bring about changes to Northern Ireland's organ donation rules has received a ...

Heart transplant surgeon Raymond Lee, MD, explains what patients can expect after a heart transplant—including how long the heart will last. The average lifespan of a transplanted heart is about 10 ...

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 ...

When pediatric cardiac surgeons evaluate options for their smallest patients with the most severe cardiac birth defects, they don’t have a lot of good choices. For conditions such as truncus ...

Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies — advances that could help recover would-be heart donations that too often go unused. The ...

Dylan and Catrin Green fear baby Macs has days to live and say he urgently needs a 'Berlin heart'.

Australian surgeons said Friday they have used hearts which had stopped beating in successful transplants, in what they said was a world first that could change the way organs are donated. Until now, ...