Heart Donor

A 30-year-old woman from Massachusetts, grappling with a rare genetic condition, is being sustained by a mechanical implant while she anxiously awaits a suitable donor to provide her with a new heart.

A court in New Zealand has taken temporary custody of a sick baby whose parents stopped the child from having life-saving heart surgery because potential blood donors may be vaccinated against COVID-19.

An one-year-old Spanish girl has become the world's first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, Madrid's La Paz hospital said on Tuesday.

A 19-year-old patient suffering from cardiac ailment received a new lease of life after undergoing an over eight-hour complex transplant surgery of the heart received from a 55-year-old woman in New Delhi, doctors at a private hospital said Today.

A Tamilian donor's heart was transported over 350 kilometres for a successful transplant on a young woman from Srinagar suffering from terminal heart failure at MGM Healthcare in Chennai.

A 33-year-old woman in Jammu and Kashmir who has been suffering from terminal heart failure received help from an 18-year-old donor in Tamil Nadu, who was brain dead.

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.

Surgeons have successfully attached a pig kidney to a human in a breakthrough case of animal-to-human transplant.

The actor flexed his skills as a vocalist to bring the sweet song to life and dedicated the lines to his mother on her birthday

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday hailed a policeman for donating blood to a 14-year-old patient requiring open heart surgery at a city hospital where no other suitable donor could reach due to cyclone Nisarga and the COVID-19 outbreak.

NDTV-Fortis More To Give Walkathon 2018 garnered huge support across India with nearly 6.2 crore steps contributed in 7-cities and online. The event was to raise awareness about the cause of organ donation in India and get more people to take the pledge to become organ donors. This year saw many well known personalities like Rajkummar Rao, Prakash ...

A private hospital in Kolkata has retrieved the heart, liver, kidneys and corneas of a young male donor, declared brain dead and transplanted to six different people.

In an exemplary gesture, the parents of a brain dead 14-month-old boy from Surat donated his organs, including his heart, giving a new lease of life to a three-and-a-half year old girl in Mumbai.

The heart and kidneys of this little boy were used to give a new lease of life to two people.

The donor's family has donated the corneas, which were given to AIIMS, the heart to FEHI in Okhla, the kidney to a private hospital and one which was used at Fortis Vasant Kunj and the liver to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

A 30-year-old woman from Massachusetts, grappling with a rare genetic condition, is being sustained by a mechanical implant while she anxiously awaits a suitable donor to provide her with a new heart.

A court in New Zealand has taken temporary custody of a sick baby whose parents stopped the child from having life-saving heart surgery because potential blood donors may be vaccinated against COVID-19.

An one-year-old Spanish girl has become the world's first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, Madrid's La Paz hospital said on Tuesday.

A 19-year-old patient suffering from cardiac ailment received a new lease of life after undergoing an over eight-hour complex transplant surgery of the heart received from a 55-year-old woman in New Delhi, doctors at a private hospital said Today.

A Tamilian donor's heart was transported over 350 kilometres for a successful transplant on a young woman from Srinagar suffering from terminal heart failure at MGM Healthcare in Chennai.

A 33-year-old woman in Jammu and Kashmir who has been suffering from terminal heart failure received help from an 18-year-old donor in Tamil Nadu, who was brain dead.

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.

Surgeons have successfully attached a pig kidney to a human in a breakthrough case of animal-to-human transplant.

The actor flexed his skills as a vocalist to bring the sweet song to life and dedicated the lines to his mother on her birthday

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday hailed a policeman for donating blood to a 14-year-old patient requiring open heart surgery at a city hospital where no other suitable donor could reach due to cyclone Nisarga and the COVID-19 outbreak.

NDTV-Fortis More To Give Walkathon 2018 garnered huge support across India with nearly 6.2 crore steps contributed in 7-cities and online. The event was to raise awareness about the cause of organ donation in India and get more people to take the pledge to become organ donors. This year saw many well known personalities like Rajkummar Rao, Prakash ...

A private hospital in Kolkata has retrieved the heart, liver, kidneys and corneas of a young male donor, declared brain dead and transplanted to six different people.

In an exemplary gesture, the parents of a brain dead 14-month-old boy from Surat donated his organs, including his heart, giving a new lease of life to a three-and-a-half year old girl in Mumbai.

The heart and kidneys of this little boy were used to give a new lease of life to two people.

The donor's family has donated the corneas, which were given to AIIMS, the heart to FEHI in Okhla, the kidney to a private hospital and one which was used at Fortis Vasant Kunj and the liver to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.