Tubes, Pump and Fragile Hope Keep a Baby's Heart Beating
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In a desperate move to save an infant, doctors sought a device they had never tried before: a miniaturized pump called the Berlin Heart.
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Connor Geddes was 13 days old when surgeons gave him a new heart that didn't match his blood type &#151; deliberately.
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Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.
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English doctors used the anti-impotence drug Viagra to save the life of a severely premature baby, media reports have said.
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Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick patients until a donor heart is found.
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Four-month-old Damaris Ochoa was near death, born with an enlarged heart that was quickly giving out. Obtaining a transplant in time was a long shot...
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NEW ORLEANS -- A polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, a study found.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A 4 1/2-month-old north Alabama girl was in stable condition Wednesday after undergoing a heart transplant while her twin remained in the same hospital awaiting the same operation.
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Dr. Robert Jarvikâs newest heart device, the Jarvik 2000, holds the distinction of keeping a patient alive the longest. But it is facing competition.
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A device that measures a babyÂs blood oxygen during labor has failed to meet doctorsÂ hopes that it would lead to fewer Caesarean sections and safer deliveries, a new study has concluded.
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NEW ORLEANS - A simple fabric device that looks like fishnet hose but acts like support stockings helped weak hearts pump more efficiently and even shrink back to a more normal size, researchers reported at an American Heart Association conference.
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Researchers seeking new treatments for heart disease managed to grow a rat heart in the lab and start it beating
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The parents of a  baby at the centre of a right-to-life battle claim doctors are trying to hasten her death.
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Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick
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A former heart patient, a courageous lady bidding to make history and a 3-year-old who can go from spoiler to champion provide some of the appealing elements
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Every day, more than 15 people die in the United States while waiting for a lifesaving organ that never comes. At this very moment in New England, two babies under the age of 1 year old need livers.
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First, researchers used soap to wash out most of the cells from a rat's heart. Then they injected new cells to the shell that was left and added a pacemaker to teach the cells to pump like a heart. The result was a new heart. The process -- likened to gutting and rebuilding a house -- may take scientists a step closer to offering new options to the sickest patients.