Case is a first in Maryland A fist-sized contraption of plastic and metal kept 63-year-old Grant Feusner alive for five weeks earlier this year, pumping blood from his chest to his brain, kidneys and muscles. Doctors had removed most of Feusner's h…

University of Maryland performs first successful such transplant in the state Grant Feusner's sick heart couldn't pump enough blood, so doctors at the University of Maryland gave him an artificial one while he waited on the transplant list. He …

University of Maryland performs first successful surgery in state Grant Feusner's sick heart couldn't pump enough blood, so doctors at the University of Maryland gave him an artificial one while he waited on the transplant list. He survived fiv…

There’s a breakthrough at the University of Maryland Medical Center. For the first time ever in Maryland, a patient with an artificial heart receives a heart transplant.

Colby Salerno, 24, steps out of the car and greets friends waiting for him as he returns to his Cheshire home Sunday, June 10, 2012, after undergoing a heart transplant May 28 at Hartford Hospital. Behind him, his mother, Kelly Salerno, gets out of the…

After receiving a new heart and living at Hartford Hospital for six months, Colby Salerno, 23, is released from Hartford Hospital.

A Tewksbury woman is organizing a fundraiser for her brother, needs a heart transplant.

WA doctors have become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to use breakthrough technology dubbed "heart in a box" that allows donor hearts to beat for hours outside the body.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hispanic patients in need of a heart transplant are 50 percent more likely to die before they get one than white patients, according to new research. And although that wasn't the case for black transplant patients in the…

YADKIN CO., N.C. — A Yadkin County teenager who received a heart transplant last month is home and recovering well,…