Heart Transplant

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

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

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

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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US man who got first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

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

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

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