heart transplant

A man is celebrating 32 years of life after having a heart transplant — beating the typical post-transplant life expectancy by decades. “I’ve had a complete life,” Tom Cook said. “A complete second chance at life. It still goes on and hopefully for a longtime more.” In 1989, a congenital heart condition called Marfan syndrome hospitalized Cook at just 25…

A local man is celebrating 32 years of life after having a heart transplant — beating the typical post-transplant life expectancy by decades. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

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...

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 23-month-old Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, boy who was escorted by snowplows and state troopers for an emergency procedure during this week’s snowstorm was resting comfortably Friday in a hospital.  Bentley Gingerlowski has a rare congenital heart defect and on Tuesday he needed an emergency treatment. But it was at the height of a powerful snowstorm and the doctors equipped to do...

The National Guard and Pennsylvania State Police teamed up with PennDOT to ensure that snow wouldn’t stop a toddler in need of life-saving medical care from getting to the hospital.

A Denver Broncos player dropped a bombshell on a cancer and heart transplant patient the night before the Super Bowl and was moved to tears by the encounter.

It was a celebration in the form of a press conference Wednesday at Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami where a young girl with a rare heart condition was finally heading home.