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Heart Transplant

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What to know about Dick Cheney's heart trouble and eventual transplant

  • Nov 4, 2025

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

  • Apr 4, 2025
Jenny Pineda

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

  • Jun 24, 2024
Credit: Savanna Schultz

Girl who received new heart after 1,025 days goes home from hospital

  • Apr 26, 2024

Baby boy thriving 1 year after groundbreaking partial heart transplant

  • Jan 3, 2024

Stanford 'miracle' patient ready to ride 2024 Rose Parade float

  • Dec 31, 2023

Bay Area teen, Stanford 'miracle' patient to be honored at Rose Parade

  • Dec 28, 2023

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

  • Oct 24, 2023

Latest Videos

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Cook surviving on artificial heart saved with donor heart in first-ever UCSF transplant

  • Mar 17
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Stanford 'miracle' patient ready to ride 2024 Rose Parade float

  • Dec 31, 2023
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Bay Area teen who beat odds after 3 separate organ transplants to be honored at Rose Parade

  • Dec 28, 2023
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East Bay teen now healthy, celebrated with car parade after receiving three transplants

  • Sep 19, 2023
2:33

Bay Area teen beats odds after 3 separate organ transplants in different parts of his life

  • Jul 23, 2023
11:53

2 families forever connected by 1 heart

  • Jun 28, 2021
1:47

The first ever child to get a heart transplant in San Francisco is doing well

  • Jul 14, 2018
2:28

Doctor dressed as Chewbacca tells boy he's getting a new heart

  • Mar 20, 2018

Latest Stories

Tey Pelayo

East Bay teen now healthy, celebrated with car parade after receiving 3 transplants

Joseph Sanchez Munoz beat the odds after receiving three transplants at different points in his life, a recent heart transplant - on top of a liver and kidney transplant.

  • Sep 19, 2023

Bay Area teen beats odds after 3 separate organ transplants in different parts of his life

At just seven months old, Joseph was diagnosed with cancer. A liver transplant soon followed. Seven years later, a new kidney . . . and now a heart.

  • Jul 23, 2023

Mom hears late son's heartbeat in 14-year-old donor recipient's chest for 1st time

"He came in and he just hugged me. He had a strong hug, just like Nick did," the mother said. "And then to hear the heartbeat, it was so strong and so full of life."

  • May 24, 2022

Man denied heart transplant because he's not vaccinated against COVID

The family says he was at the front of the line to receive a transplant but because he has not received the COVID-19 vaccination he is no longer eligible, according to hospital policy.

  • Jan 26, 2022
Stanford Hospital

Stanford surgeons top own record with 86 heart transplants

REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT: Over the course of the year, in the shadow of the COVID-19 crisis, Stanford surgeons topped their own record with 86 heart transplants.

  • Feb 4, 2021