Heart Transplant

Flying Dutchman sets Guinness World Record as 'longest-surviving heart transplant patient.' Here's how

March 04, 2024

Flying Dutchman sets Guinness World Record as 'longest-surviving heart transplant patient.' Here's how

Bert Janssen was 17 when he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.

November 26, 2023
Heart transplantation in Kochi hospital: Doctor says surgery successful

Harinarayanan has received the heart of Kanyakumari native Selvin Shekhar (36), a staff nurse in Tamil Nadu.
November 25, 2023
Heart transplant surgery: 16-year-old's mother thanks organ donor

Harinarayanan has received the heart of Kanyakumari native Selvin Shekhar (36), whose brain death was confirmed by doctors at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
August 12, 2023
Kerala's longest-surviving heart transplant patient celebrates 10th anniversary

Sruthi had received Lalichan's heart on August 13, 2013, on the occasion of World Organ Donation Day.
April 14, 2023
10 years after heart transplant, Kochi driver Dinoy Thomas to run into history in Australia

Thomas, who underwent a heart transplant 10 years ago at Lissie Hospital, Ernakulam, will be participating in a 5-km marathon slated for April 16 in the World Transplant Games.
March 09, 2022
US man who got first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn't give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had begun deteriorating several days earlier.
January 11, 2022
In a medical first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

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