heart transplant

A Dallas man gets a second chance at life after receiving a new heart. Now, he gets the opportunity to meet the family of his organ donor.

A Dallas man gets a second chance at life after receiving a new heart. Now, he gets the opportunity to meet the family of his organ donor.

At 27, Kara DuBois experienced chest pain but her doctor explained that she had a panic attack. So she thought little of it until five years later. She learned that she actually had experienced a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery. Since then she has had four more heart attacks and was in end-stage heart failure. “I didn’t know that...

Baby Miles is now happy and healthy after receiving a heart transplant — the 300th at Children’s Health in Dallas.

Baby Miles is now happy and healthy after receiving a heart transplant — the 300th at Children’s Health in Dallas, NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen reports.

An 8-year old Fort Worth girl is sharing her heart transplant journey to raise awareness of how heart failure can happen to anyone at any age. Just two years ago, Riley Robinson got sick with what her parents thought was a simple cold. Her three sisters were also sick with a cold so it didn’t seem out of the...

An 8-year old Fort Worth girl is sharing her heart transplant journey to raise awareness of how heart failure can happen to anyone at any age.

Heart failure in children is rare, but scary. While Lafayette McAlphin Jr. waits for a heart transplant, newer technology is making the waits a little more manageable.

Loeffler’s syndrome is a serious, but rare respiratory infection that can take doctors months to diagnose. In the most severe cases, that critical time can lead to organ damage.

Matt Shilling was perfectly fine less than two months ago. Then in September, he was having trouble breathing, so he went to the doctor and was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. Shilling was given an artificial heart to keep his blood pumping, and after a series of tests, doctors said he may need a heart transplant. However, he first...

Miguel Solis spoke at Children’s Health’s ‘What’s Up, Doc’ breakfast Thursday morning, sharing his baby daughter’s emotional heart transplant journey.

Leslie Lee Walden was back at Baylor University Medical Center Wednesday after a transplant to see and hold the heart that nearly failed him.

An embattled Houston hospital that in the past year faced leadership changes, a loss of some government funding and questions about heart transplant patient deaths has been accused of violating patient safety and quality care requirements.

Though the Lake Highlands Wildcats baseball team took to the diamond Friday night in front of crowded stands, they weren’t the only team their fans were cheering for.

A young Texas mother is opening up how her pregnancy may have caused the heart attack that almost killed her. Doctors say what happened is rare, but just as miraculous as her survival, is the device that is keeping her alive.

A heart transplant recipient from Tarrant County and the donor’s family, from New Mexico, met for the first time Saturday.

The girl who got her wish to meet Drake while awaiting heart surgery in Chicago last month now has a direct line to the rapper — he gave Sofia Sanchez an iPhone with his private number so she can text him directly, she told the “Today” show.

A Houston hospital that in early June suspended its heart transplant program for two weeks amid scrutiny over patient deaths loses Medicare funding next month.

A Houston hospital that suspended its heart transplant program for two weeks amid scrutiny following the deaths of two patients could lose federal Medicaid funding.

The 3-month-old baby girl is recovering after having a life-saving procedure fewer than a dozen Texas infants undergo each year.