Simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation offers better long-term survival than isolated heart transplantation for patients ...
When Dr. Brittany Clayborne's 13-year-old son Micah came home from school in December 2023, she asked him if he wanted to play football outside. It was one of his favorite hobbies. But Micah said he ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- For the first time, surgeons at the University of California San Francisco implanted an artificial heart in a patient and later replaced it with a human heart. Martell Taylor, a ...
When pediatric cardiac surgeons evaluate options for their smallest patients with the most severe cardiac birth defects, they don’t have a lot of good choices. For conditions such as truncus ...
On Valentine’s Day, inside a hospital room at INTEGRIS Health Heart Hospital, LaTricia Williams received a gift she will ...
Baby Estelle was born with an extremely large ventricular septal defect (VSD) and has been hospitalized in the PICU since ...
Mortality has substantially dropped over the past two decades for children awaiting a heart transplant, but still one in eight die while on the wait list, according to an analysis of US data.