Heart Transplant

The first hour after a heart attack can mean the difference between survival and lasting damage; doctors explain what to do in the Golden Hour

The hospital and Chennai-based NGO helped Pakistani family settle bill of more than Rs 35 lakh for the transplant

Data showed that from 1995 to 2021, 36,640 transplantations were carried out in the country, of which over 29,000 were for men and 6,945 were for women

IIT Kanpur is ready with an artificial heart that would be of great help to people with acute cardiac problems

The government is considering changing the definition of "death" in the law on organ transplants

Over 54 years ago, Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen performed a heart transplant on a farmer suffering from chronic progressive cardiomyopathy in Mumbai. The surgery was a success. However, within three hours of the surgery, the patient died of heart failure. It was India's first human heart transplant and only the sixth in the world back then. Medical science has come a long way since then. So what is the basic requirement for a heart transplant? Let's take a look

David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he's doing well three days after surgery

A heart harvested from a 45-year-old in PGIMER here was transplanted to a terminally-ill patient, some 2,500 kilometres away in Chennai, doctors said on Friday

Organ donation rates in India are so low that even people who can afford transplant surgeries are unable to find donors