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Simon Fischler, center, with Dr. Ben Ben Avraham, left, and Prof. Leor Perl, right, after Fischler's groundbreaking emergency heart surgery at Rabin Medical Center. (Courtesy/Rabin Medical Center)
August 25, 2025, 4:37 pm
Israeli doctors perform 1st ever emergency mitral valve repair on heart transplant patient
33 years after Simon Fischler, 47, had a heart transplant, Rabin Medical Center team conducts procedure, attempted only twice before, but never on a patient in cardiogenic shock
By Diana Bletter
Doctors at Sheba Medical Center during an operation to transplant an artificial heart into a patient on May 29, 2025. (Courtesy/Sheba Spokesperson office)
June 7, 2025, 7:08 am
Israeli doctors are pumped after country’s first successful artificial heart transplants
Two patients are recovering well after receiving lifesaving procedure, which installs a NIS 2.1 million mechanical heart to allow normal activity until donor organs are available
By Diana Bletter
In this photo provided by NYU Langone Health, surgeons prepare a genetically modified pig heart for transplant into a recently deceased donor at NYU Langone Health on July 6, 2022, in New York (Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health via AP)
July 13, 2022, 2:33 pm
Scientists put pig hearts in brain-dead people in bid to improve odds for the living
Researchers use special new methods to check for animal viruses; experiments come after historic but ultimately failed attempt to use a pig’s heart to save a dying man
By lauren neergard
Dr. Bartley Griffith takes a selfie photo with patient David Bennett in Baltimore in January 2022. (Dr. Bartley Griffith/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)
March 9, 2022, 9:02 pm
First patient to undergo pig heart transplant dies after two months
Maryland team behind operation say they’re still hopeful David Bennett’s case will one day help advance cross-species organ donations
By AFP
US surgeons prepare to transplant kidneys from a genetically modified pig into the body of a deceased recipient in September 2021. (University of Alabama at Birmingham via AP)
January 20, 2022, 5:16 pm
After heart transplant, researchers successfully test pig-to-human kidney donation
US study shows no sign of rejection by donated body of brain-dead man, with experts saying string of breakthroughs are promising — but many hurdles remain
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Prof. Eitan Mor of Sheba Medical Center inspects a kidney from Israeli woman Shani Markowitz, just before it was transported to the United Arab Emirates (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
January 18, 2022, 4:10 pm
Record number of organ transplants in 2021, as harvesting skills improve
Despite COVID-19 pandemic, there were 647 donations carried out last year, including a 30% increase in ‘altruistic’ donors who were not acquainted with the recipient
By Stuart Winer
In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)
January 11, 2022, 1:13 am
In world first, US surgeons successfully transplant a pig heart into human patient
Doctors at Baltimore hospital say 57-year-old, who did not qualify for human heart, doing well 3 days after operation to implant organ genetically modified against rejection
By Carla K. Johnson
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