All news on the topic: Heart transplants

Kalem Pounder first had an operation just hours after being born, and he's been amazing his family ever since by fighting his heart condition. Now, he's preparing for another operation in the next few months

Michael Welsh was given CPR by his son and two daughters after he suffered a cardiac arrest in his sleep and they saved his life

The family of four-year-old Evie Green have told of their agonising wait for her life-saving heart transplant as they urged people to sign up to the donor register

Is it any surprise thousands of nurses quit last year while universities have seen a major fall in students applying for nursing degrees after years of being underpaid and undervalued?

Union leader Mark Serwotka tells Kevin Maguire how his career and life were jeopardised when his heart was damaged in 2000 after catching a virus his dog got from a dead fox

Harry Johnson, 18, dreams of becoming a doctor after seeing the "fabulous" care his brother had when he had a heart transplant and is now in the first year of university studying medicine

A 4-year-old's emotional journey to receive a heart transplant ended in tragedy as he unfortunately passed away just a mere day after receiving the important surgery

Louis Jones underwent gruelling heart surgery at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital months after he was born premature, and spent most of his short life so far on a neonatal ward

Among up to 80 men marched out on Thursday was a dad, 35, at risk of sepsis, waiting for dental treatment. Nearly all his teeth were smashed in a politically motivated attack in Algeria

George Wathey is one of the UK's youngest patients waiting for a heart transplant at just three weeks old - mum Emma is desperate to find him a donor before it's too late

A team of Japanese researchers has discovered that leg size and strength correlates with a reduced risk of developing heart disease - so having bigger or more muscular legs could lower your risk

Little girl Evie Green, who has dilated cardiomyopathy, is loving receiving messages from people after her mum requested people send cards not presents to Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital

The NHS is at breaking point as a consequence of years of underfunding and this Government’s failure to provide more beds, more staff, and fix the crisis in social care.

Beatrix Adamson-Archbold needed a mechanical Berlin heart to keep her alive for 14 months - but her life has been saved thanks to a heart transplant, her parents have said

Sergio and Emma Petrucci were awarded MBEs for their fundraising after daughter Luna had life-saving heart surgery, and they back the Mirror’s campaign for ­defibrillators in public

Evie Green, four, has been in Freeman Hospital Newcastle for eight months waiting on news of a heart transplant and recently had a scare when she went into septic shock

Lawrence Faucette, 58, is only the second person in history to have the life-threatening operation using a pig's organ after he wasn't eligible for a standard heart transplant

Ethan Eaves was admitted to hospital at five months and stayed there until he came home in the summer of 2020 at 18 months old, following his lifesaving transplant

Medics found Manjit Swayne had a hole in her heart when she was just six months old - now, more than four decades later, she is recovering from transplant after donor was found

A brain-dead man has lived for over a month with a pig kidney transplant. This is the longest a human being has lived with a gene-edited pig kidney and a huge step toward the supply of organs for transplant

America's Got Talent fans and judges were moved to tears by the back story and performance of two mothers who met through devastating circumstances

Emma Anderson told how little Darcy, now six, stayed calm when her mother's "sore heart" - caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - twice failed to function properly

Luke Barnes passed away earlier this year aged just 34, leaving behind his wife, 22-year-old Isobel Barnes - who hopes he is looking 'down on her living her best life'

Transplant patients could get hearts from abroad as the box uses oxygenated blood to keep them stable for 12 to 24 hours, up from the current three to four hours

When we began our Change the Law for Life campaign in 2016, there were 22.5million people on the NHS Organ Donor Register - now there are more than 30m, around 46% of the population