INDIANAPOLIS – A new study shows that a relatively new procedure called “desensitization” allows patients receiving kidney transplants to...

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Transplanting a mismatched kidney from a living donor may lower the risk of death more than not doing a...

Transplant surgeons report that obtaining organs from deceased organ donors costs much less and leads to a higher number of...

Hebrew University scientists believe that after decades of studies, they have made a breakthrough in preserving body organs and tissues...

A recent review published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal highlighted the diagnosis and management of transplant-associated...

Dr Virginia Hebl, MD: Greetings. I’m Dr Virginia Hebl, advanced heart failure and transplant fellow at Mayo Clinic. During today’s Mayo...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. Each year more than 600,000 people die of heart disease —...

The task of determining who on the waiting list should receive a new organ falls to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a...

For patients on mechanical circulatory support, a risk index predicts 1-year mortality after heart transplantation, a study suggested,...

(Photo : Getty Images/Spencer Platt) A new breakthrough in 3D printing technology has seen researchers create body parts including an...

Seven out of 10 people who were administered specially treated lymphocytes shortly after undergoing living-donor liver transplants at...

Jake Hafer likes to say that he was born – on Valentine’s Day – with a broken heart. He had hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, a congenital...

The ex vivo machine supplies the donor heart with oxygen during transport Donor hearts are lucky to withstand a transport time of about...

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The Zika virus has been in the headlines lately for its apparent association of microcephaly in the children of mothers infected when...

Guinness World Record heart transplant patient dies 10 February 2016 From the section Beds, Herts & Bucks Image caption John McCafferty...

By Shreeya Nanda, Senior medwireNews Reporter In solid-organ transplant recipients (OTRs) diagnosed with cancer post-transplant,...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 (UPI) — The drug belatacept, sold as Nulojix, showed better organ survival in kidney transplant recipients than...

By Madhumita Murgia 11:59AM GMT 26 Jan 2016 Follow A three-year-old girl from Northern Ireland has become the first to have a...

There is good news in the annual data report from the United States Renal Data System, coordinating center based at the University of...