Study: Same-sex heart transplants are better

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex. Size may be part of the explanation. Men's hearts are bigger than women's and have greater pumping capacity, and men who get men's hearts fare better.

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