Heart Transplant

Skylar Marion's heart donated to Kyle Wilkerson
5/6/13 5:54 PM Comment
Skylar Marion was hit by an SUV while walking and taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center. At the same hospital, his friend Kyle Wilkerson was in heart failure. One day after Marion died, Wilkerson got a heart transplant.
Dick Cheney released from hospital after heart transplant
4/3/12 1:06 PM Comment
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been released from Inova Fairfax Hospital just a week and a half after the 71-year-old underwent heart transplant surgery.
Dick Cheney heart transplant: Age of transplant recipients debated
3/26/12 5:59 PM Comment
As former Vice President Dick Cheney continues to recover from the heart transplant he underwent this past weekend, the debate continues to spike over who old is too old to be receiving the procedure.
Dick Cheney heart transplant recovery continues
3/25/12 11:24 AM Comment
Former Vice President Dick Cheney spent Saturday night in the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital after receiving a new heart. Aides say Cheney spent nearly two years on the waiting list for a transplant.
Fla. chopper crash kills Mayo doc getting heart for transplant
12/26/11 11:45 PM Comment
A heart that a Mayo Clinic surgeon was on his way to pick up when he died in a helicopter crash cannot be transplanted.

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