Children waiting for heart transplants have the highest waiting-list mortality. Cincinnati Children's cardiothoracic surgeon says the heart-in-a-box transport system widens the donor pool for hearts, ...

Groundbreaking technology that will change how heart transplants are done nationwide has now received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It works like this: Traditional heart donors ...

The risk of early heart failure after heart transplantation is lower if the donor heart is stored in a so-called heart-in-a-box instead of in the usual cooler with ice. This is according to a study ...

When a transplant surgeon who was set to fly a donor heart to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood from out of state fell ill with COVID-19, the transplant program turned to so-called "heart-in-a-box" ...

A 55-year-old man from Champaign, Illinois, became the first recipient of a transplanted heart that was donated after circulatory death, through the use of new technology nicknamed a "Heart in a Box." ...

People have been left awe-struck after a video of a 'huge' beating heart went viralas it was transported for a transplant. It's not uncommon for hearts, or other organs, to be moved from one hospital ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – It's a game-changer in the field of medicine. For the first time ever in Illinois, surgeons have successfully taken a heart that stopped beating and transplanted it into another person ...