Live Heart Transplant

Most women are ready to offer their organs to their sick husbands to save their lives, but the reverse rarely happens. Such is the deep-rooted patriarchal bias in society.

Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving transplant patient.

Researchers in New York have transplanted pig hearts into two brain dead people to study the effects of animal organ transplants in humans. The attempts to use pig hearts in humans follows the failed attempt to transplant one in a dying Maryland man, before scientists make another attempt on a living person.

Researchers reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.

For the first time, a heart harvested from a brain dead man for transplant in a needy patient was transported in a metro train in Hyderabad on Tuesday with the Hyderabad Metro Rail creating a green corridor for 21 km between two city stations, officials said.

A Delhi-based man with post-Covid lung fibrosis and a heart patient from Andhra Pradesh will be able to start the New Year with hope for a better life, thanks to a team of Hyderabad doctors who pulled off a challenging double transplant surgery.

The Delhi Police has provided a fast-moving green corridor of over 18 km for an ambulance carrying a live heart from the airport to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, officials said.

A private hospital in Kolkata has retrieved the heart, liver, kidneys and corneas of a young male donor, declared brain dead and transplanted to six different people.

The Delhi Traffic Police on Friday provided a green corridor for the transport of a live heart from the Indira Gandhi International Airport to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Nutritionist Pooja Malhotra suggests a few dietary tips for patients who go through a heart transplant surgery. Take a look.

A 38-year-old brain dead man's organs have saved four lives after his family decided to donate them, a hospital has said.

Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...

Every year, 4 lakh people die waiting for organs in India. There is an urgent need to inform people about the need and importance of organ donation. The organ donation rate in India is a dismal 0.5 persons per million population. Each one of us can become a donor and help save lives. To show support for the cause, people from all walks of life a...

A green corridor was set up from Indira Gandhi International Airport to a hospital in New Friends Colony in New Delhi to transport a live heart for transplantation in a patient, as the over 18 km distance was covered within 16 minutes.

A 21-year-old youth, who was declared brain dead, gave a fresh lease of life to two patients by donating his heart and liver.

Most women are ready to offer their organs to their sick husbands to save their lives, but the reverse rarely happens. Such is the deep-rooted patriarchal bias in society.

Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving transplant patient.

Researchers in New York have transplanted pig hearts into two brain dead people to study the effects of animal organ transplants in humans. The attempts to use pig hearts in humans follows the failed attempt to transplant one in a dying Maryland man, before scientists make another attempt on a living person.

Researchers reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.

For the first time, a heart harvested from a brain dead man for transplant in a needy patient was transported in a metro train in Hyderabad on Tuesday with the Hyderabad Metro Rail creating a green corridor for 21 km between two city stations, officials said.

A Delhi-based man with post-Covid lung fibrosis and a heart patient from Andhra Pradesh will be able to start the New Year with hope for a better life, thanks to a team of Hyderabad doctors who pulled off a challenging double transplant surgery.

The Delhi Police has provided a fast-moving green corridor of over 18 km for an ambulance carrying a live heart from the airport to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, officials said.

A private hospital in Kolkata has retrieved the heart, liver, kidneys and corneas of a young male donor, declared brain dead and transplanted to six different people.

The Delhi Traffic Police on Friday provided a green corridor for the transport of a live heart from the Indira Gandhi International Airport to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Nutritionist Pooja Malhotra suggests a few dietary tips for patients who go through a heart transplant surgery. Take a look.

A 38-year-old brain dead man's organs have saved four lives after his family decided to donate them, a hospital has said.

Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find o...

Every year, 4 lakh people die waiting for organs in India. There is an urgent need to inform people about the need and importance of organ donation. The organ donation rate in India is a dismal 0.5 persons per million population. Each one of us can become a donor and help save lives. To show support for the cause, people from all walks of life a...

A green corridor was set up from Indira Gandhi International Airport to a hospital in New Friends Colony in New Delhi to transport a live heart for transplantation in a patient, as the over 18 km distance was covered within 16 minutes.

A 21-year-old youth, who was declared brain dead, gave a fresh lease of life to two patients by donating his heart and liver.