Heart Transplant
Why the first 60 minutes after a heart attack can make all the difference
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
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Pakistani teen receives life-saving heart transplant in Chennai hospital
The hospital and Chennai-based NGO helped Pakistani family settle bill of more than Rs 35 lakh for the transplant
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4 of 5 organ recipients in India are men; 93% are living donors: Study
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
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IIT Kanpur develops artificial heart to deal with acute cardiac problems
IIT Kanpur is ready with an artificial heart that would be of great help to people with acute cardiac problems
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Redefining 'death': Organ transplants, donation may get a legal nudge
The government is considering changing the definition of "death" in the law on organ transplants
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Do you qualify to be a heart donor? Find out
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
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US man who got first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months
David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center
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In a medical first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
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
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Heart harvested from PGIMER patient transplanted to Chennai man: officials
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
THPF is raising both awareness and money for life-saving transplants
Organ donation rates in India are so low that even people who can afford transplant surgeries are unable to find donors
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