Westchester Hospital Resuming Heart Transplants With 2 Additional Surgeons
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Six months after it stopped performing heart transplants, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., announced that it would restart the program in February.
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Uninsured and diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, Elaine Sawyer entered the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. A month later, doctors determined a transplant wouldn&#39;t help.
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It took a record nine months in intensive care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, but a Kansas man will be back home Saturday, thanks to an experimental heart-assist device that keeps his heart pumping.
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One of the two patients hospitalized at Bayonne Medical Center in connection with a recent botulism poisoning has apparently been transferred to a different hospital.
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It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate strangers simultaneously received new organs in what hospital officials Monday described as the first-ever quintuple kidney transplant.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.
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Delonte West underwent surgery on his broken right hand yesterday at New England Baptist Hospital. Dr. Drew Terrano and team physician Arnold Scheller performed the operation in which a fracture of the fourth metacarpal was reduced and held with two screws.
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hospital, and his doctors say he would have risked a &quot;substantial&quot; heart attack without the operation. an operation, Chief of Cardiology Allan Schwartz of New York-Presbyterian Hospital told a news conference on Monday.
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n the days following Bill Clinton&#39;s quadruple bypass last Monday, Dr. Harvey S. Hecht, the director of preventive cardiology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, received twice as many
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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Fourteen-year-old Travis Marcus left the Arkansas Children Hospital Thursday after giving his surgeon a bear hug. Marcus is the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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Former President Clinton is in a New York City hospital, waiting to undergo heart bypass surgery. His office says he was admitted today after complaining of mild chest pain and shortness of breath.
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The former president remained hospitalized in New York. Who will perform the surgery and when were not disclosed.
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HALIFAX - Surgeons are transplanting fewer hearts in Canada, especially among babies and children, because there aren&#39;t enough donor organs available, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK  - Heart surgery is a frightening  prospect for many people, but now imagine undergoing the  operation completely awake! That's what seven patients treated  at a hospital in Turkey went though -- in a planned, deliberate  study.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. One of two infant twins who had been awaiting heart transplants in Nashville has received a donor organ. Abigail Patrick underwent four hours of surgery yesterday at Vanderbilt University&#39;s children&#39;s hospital.