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Heart Transplant

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

Updated On: 26 Apr 2024 | 1:46 PM IST

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

Updated On: 13 Nov 2023 | 1:28 PM IST

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

Updated On: 25 Dec 2022 | 8:40 AM IST

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

Updated On: 03 Oct 2022 | 12:34 PM IST

Updated On: 03 Aug 2022 | 8:35 PM IST

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

Updated On: 10 Mar 2022 | 12:13 AM IST

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

Updated On: 11 Jan 2022 | 10:05 AM IST

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

Updated On: 10 Dec 2021 | 6:44 PM IST

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

Updated On: 06 Apr 2018 | 9:23 PM IST