Can we reboot the human heart? Yes, we can, and this could save many dying babies and adults who are waiting for a transplant ...

Inspired by ECMO life support, NTUH’s organ care system keeps the heart pumping outside the body using a system of pumps, oxygenators and reservoirs. During the first surgery, the team ...

HEART disease is the number-one killer the world over and is particularly prevalent in T&T. As a result there is a high ...

The major breakthrough is that the donor heart—which came from a 35-year-old male who experienced brain death after complications during cerebellar tumor surgery—never experienced cardioplegia ...

PITTSBURGH (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- As many as half a million people in the U.S. undergo coronary artery bypass surgery every year -- but some older patients, or those with other ...

Beating the odds, his doctors said the surgery had been a success. “I could see the relief in his parent's eyes, and I don't forget those things," Quader said.

Once the heart-on-a-chip system was on board the ISS, Kim and his colleagues used sensors to monitor the strength of the tissues’ contraction and beating patterns in real time.