After 21 years of service, U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Louis B. Smith Jr. found himself battling a new enemy: heart failure.

A heart transplant is surgery to take out a diseased heart and replace it with a donor heart. The doctor will make a cut in the skin over your breastbone (sternum). The cut is called an incision. Then ...

The ink on his chest spells out a lyric from Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” a song his father introduced him to when he was young.

Two years after undergoing a heart transplant, 12-year-old Jabri Fox says she's a changed person, cognizant that life is full ...

“In July of this year, I went into a 14 hour heart transplant surgery and now have ... Brentt Leakes posted some footage of his recovery taken over the past several weeks. In one video, he ...

Eventually, she was told a heart transplant was necessary. However, because Romero then weighed nearly 300 pounds, she didn’t qualify for a transplant. “It was a journey I don’t wish on my ...

Using an innovative risk score assessment score, heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City say they can ...

A Graham man became the second person in the world to receive the device, which provides a bridge to transplant A young Graham, N.C., father became the second person in the world to receive a BiVACOR ...

The caption continued, “In July of this year, I went into a 14-hour heart transplant surgery and now have a brand new heart in me. Now that I’m back (still in recovery), I’ve essentially had ...

The Duke University Health System was responsible for the second-ever utilization of a technology that acts as a complete artificial heart to extend the lives of patients waiting for a transplant.