A month after an experimental operation to transplant a genetically modified pig's heart into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the organ is functioning independently and showing no signs of rejection. CNN reported in more detail. In September, 58-year-old Lawrence Fawcett underwent surgery...

After two days of chest pain and shortness of breath, the man went to the emergency room. He was found to have a 4-inch (10,1 cm) piece of cement that pierced his heart and right lung. This unusual, but, as it turned out, not an isolated case was reported by the USA ...

According to a report recently published in a medical journal, an Israeli woman was hospitalized with so-called "broken heart syndrome" after eating wasabi, mistaking it for an avocado. A 60-year-old woman was a guest at a wedding. During the feast, she ate "a large amount" of that ...

It consists of working cells, blood vessels, chambers and ventricles. Researchers from Tel Aviv University were able to print a heart on a 3D printer for the first time based on the cells and biological material of the patient, writes TJournal. Prior to this, scientists were able to create only simple tissues without vessels. For creating…

Let me make a reservation right away that I am not a doctor and I have absolutely no idea how the same operations are carried out in our country - perhaps in exactly the same way. But I was deeply struck by the fact that the heart surgery took place in the morning, and the next morning...

Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital have developed a revolutionary transplant technique that could give babies with heart disease the chance to live a normal, healthy life. At the same time, children do not need new organs. Doctors transplant them directly into the dying heart mitochondria from the muscle cells of the child himself - and this experimental procedure shows record results, writes ...