Newswise — LOS ANGELES (Feb. 28, 2025) -- The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute set a new record in 2024 by completing 682 solid organ transplants—the most the ...

Newswise — LOS ANGELES (May 8, 2025) -- Dominic Emerson, MD, a leader in heart and lung transplantation as well as robotic surgical techniques, has been named associate director of the Cedars-Sinai ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

The Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute completed 120 adult heart transplants and two adult heart-lung transplants in 2014, setting a new national standard for the most adult heart transplants performed in a ...

Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant—but a critical shortage of donor hearts means too many are still dying while they wait, experts ...

UAB has completed more than 16,000 successful organ transplants since 1968, when our team performed Alabama’s first kidney transplant. Since then, UAB has been consistently recognized as one of ...

Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant-but a critical shortage of donor hearts means too many are still dying while they wait, experts ...

In 2022, Lenn Catley's heart began to fail because of amyloidosis, a buildup of proteins from his liver that attacked his heart. The Marine had trouble breathing while sleeping. He was dizzy, ...