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The Cape Fear Heart Walk held on Saturday raised money to help fight cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
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He was the world's youngest recipient of an artificial heart. And he was expected to live only a year. But as so often, life didn't go as predicted.
A heartwarming reunion for a Fuquay-Varina family, who tragically lost their daughter, meets the recipient of her heart two years later.
Inside 7-year-old Apex resident Saleh Ahmad's chest beats a heart donated by 4-year-old Myles Godfrey, who was killed in a car crash three years ago. Godfrey's mother, Kaci Wilson, invited the Ahmad family to her wedding over the weekend.
Three girls are forever linked thanks to a rare surgery performed at Duke Hospital.
Doctors told Donavon Harbison his time was running out at Duke University Hospital earlier this year. Harbison eventually became the second person to ever receive a titanium artificial heart.
Doctors turned to an experimental device - a titanium artificial heart powered by magnets made by BiVACOR - that would replace Donavon Harbison's heart.
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At just 18 days old, Owen Monroe made history when surgeons at Duke Children's Hospital made him the first person in the world to receive a partial heart transplant.
A year after doctors at Duke Health transplanted some valves and arteries into the heart of a sick child, they announced success on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
WRAL Staff