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The 50-year-old recipient who got the heart of less than half his age, suffered from a condition called Cardiac ischemia. (Photo: Pixabay)

Heart transported from Jaipur to Delhi to save life of 50-year-old

The harvested heart was flown down to Delhi by an Air India flight and landed at T3 at 2.40 pm on Saturday.

16 Oct 2017 12:31 PM IST

The recipient had moved to stay in Delhi since the past two months after his health deteriorated rapidly (Photo: AFP)

Heart transported from Jaipur to Delhi to save 50-year-old

The recipient had undergone stenting twice, the first time in 2008 and subsequently in 2010.

15 Oct 2017 7:19 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pioneering new technology saves the life of a man in need of a heart...

Here how doctors in the UK did it.

10 Nov 2017 3:21 PM IST

Arrhythmias which in other words could be called irregular heartbeats, fluttering, palpitations, and so on, can put you in grave danger. (Photo: Pixabay)

Hyderabad receives two beating hearts after surgery complications

Seven-hour long operation saw the 56-year-old becoming one of only 150 people worldwide to have undergone such an...

19 Feb 2018 10:43 AM IST

The woman didnt find out how she looked like after the surgery and was devastated to see her reflection five weeks later (Photo: AFP)

Kolkata doctors perform first succesful heart transplant surgery in...

In a landmark event for Eastern India, doctors of Fortis Hospital, Anandapur, successfully transplant live heart.

21 May 2018 6:46 PM IST

L to R Dr. KM Mandana (Transplant surgeon), Dilchand Singh, Rupayan Roy ( Bengals first heart recipient from Fortis Malar)

First heart transplant patient from Eastern India to be discharged...

Despite success of first heart transplant, doctors say

11 Jun 2018 2:39 PM IST

The donor heart was made available after the patient succumbed to injuries suffered during a road accident and the family consenting to donate his organs. (L-R: Samir Singh, Yashesh Paliwal, Dr. Tapas Raychaudhury, Dr. K. M. Mandana, Dr. Ashima Bhelotkar, Dr. Arafat Faisal)

Doctors at Fortis Hospital successfully perform Kolkata's second heart...

Green Corridor from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Kolkata helps swift transport of live heart to save 51-year-old from...

25 Sept 2018 2:25 PM IST

The good kind of heart growth is very different from the harmful enlargement of the heart that occurs during heart failure (Photo: Pixabay)

Two Mumbaikars receive new hearts from Pune, Vashi

The hearts were donated by two brain-dead patients, who had been admitted at hospitals in Pune and Vashi.

18 Aug 2017 1:11 AM IST

Former newspaper editor Seah Chiang Nee pictured at his home in Singapore in October 2005. (Photo: AFP)

Southeast Asia's first heart transplant patient dies

The median survival rate for heart transplant is only 10 years.

16 Jan 2017 7:08 PM IST

A donated heart has to be implanted into the recipient within four hours of its retrieval (Photo: AFP)

Heart flown from Delhi to Chennai for transplant

The transplant co-ordination team at Gleneagles Global Health City received an alert about the availability of a...

31 March 2017 10:40 AM IST

The Chennai-based hospital received a notification from the Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu. (Photo: Pixabay)

Army man's heart transplanted to old man in Chennai

The fastest green corridor helped the transplant successfully take place in four hours

30 March 2017 8:41 AM IST

Denton Cooley and his teams also performed more than 118,000 open-heart operations. (Photo: AP)

World's first heart transplant doctor passes away

Denton Cooley passed away at the age of 96 in Houston, Texas.

19 Nov 2016 5:34 PM IST