Ascension Seton celebrates Round Rock man's birthday with a bell ringing ceremony for heart transplant patients.

Over 37 years ago, when Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery on Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old South African grocer with chronic heart disease, science lit up a way ...

Justin Cauthen, the first pediatric patient to undergo a heart transplant at a Long Island hospital, opened his eyes after seven hours in surgery and could finally breathe easy.

On Dec. 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, a South African surgeon, performed the first human heart transplant in Cape Town.

Heart transplant recipient Joe Petit was on life support at University of Chicago Medical Center in March of 2016 after his body rejected the new organ he received on his 42nd birthday four years ...

A multi-center study has identified critical risk factors that increase the likelihood of death in children with a heart ...

But this one was different - it was their first-ever third heart transplant on a single patient. Finding New Purpose Six weeks after surgery, Duevel is able to walk several blocks.

A new pediatric cardiac rehab program at Primary Children's Hospital is improving the life of 4-year-old Sienna Barton, who is using an artificial heart while awaiting a heart transplant.