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Heart Transplant

1st grader welcomed back to school after successful heart transplant

  • Oct 28, 2025

Chicago bride gets 2nd chance at life after triple organ transplant

  • Sep 2, 2025

Girl surprises dad to say she's finally getting donor heart | VIDEO

  • Aug 20, 2025

Teen awaiting heart transplant graduates high school at hospital

  • May 21, 2025

Man gets second chance at life with rare triple-organ transplant

  • Apr 4, 2025

Advocate Children's Hospital celebrates 1st heart transplant patient

  • Mar 6, 2025

Suburban Army veteran celebrates nearly 1 year since heart transplant

  • Nov 11, 2024

12-year-old graduates 6th grade after heart transplant, stroke

  • Jun 24, 2024

Latest Videos

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Suburban Army veteran celebrates nearly 1 year since heart transplant

  • Nov 11, 2024
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Father of 2 receives 2nd heart transplant from Advocate Oak Lawn

  • Jun 12, 2024
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Unbreakable bond: Mother of organ donor meets man who received her daughter's heart

  • Nov 20, 2022
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Mother of organ donor meets man who received her daughter's heart

  • Nov 20, 2022
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Chicago surgeons perform heart transplant after it stopped beating

  • Nov 2, 2022
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Virus found in body of man who received pig heart transplant, died

  • May 7, 2022
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US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

  • Jan 11, 2022
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Moline girl, 3, celebrates birthday with new heart

  • Nov 14, 2021

Latest Stories

Chicago father of 2 receives 2nd heart transplant from Advocate Christ Medical in Oak Lawn

A father of two is getting a third chance at life, after receiving a second heart transplant 14 years after his first.

  • Jun 13, 2024
Credit: Savanna Schultz

4-year-old who received new heart after waiting 1,025 days goes home from hospital

According to her parents and doctor, 4-year-old Arctura was born with a congenital heart defect, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes is the most common type of birth defect.

  • Apr 26, 2024

'Changed the world': Baby boy thriving 1 year after 'world's first partial heart transplant'

One year later, doctors report that his heart valves and arteries are growing as if they were his own.

  • Jan 3, 2024

No sign of rejection or infection one month after pig heart transplant, doctors say

Lawrence Faucette, 58, was ineligible for a traditional human heart transplant due to pre-existing conditions and heart disease.

  • Oct 24, 2023

Liver, kidney, and heart: 19-year-old reunites with surgeon months after 3rd organ transplant

At just seven months old, Joseph Sanchez was diagnosed with cancer and soon needed a liver transplant. Seven years later, he received a new kidney, and four months ago, a heart.

  • Jul 24, 2023