People with long-term heart failure, heart muscle disease, or other irreversible heart injury from coronary artery disease and multiple heart attacks that can't be treated by any other medical or surgical means may be candidates for heart transplants. ... When does a person need a heart transplant?
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Heart transplantation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Heart transplantation , or cardiac transplantation , is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The most common procedu...
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Alternate Name(s): Cardiac transplant; Transplant - heart ...... Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart.
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A heart transplant removes a damaged or diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy one. The healthy heart comes from a donor who has died. It is the last resort for people with heart failure when all other treatments have failed.
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Operation: Heart Transplant or How to Transplant a Heart in Nineteen Easy Steps; ... OK, so there's really nothing humorous or easy about heart transplant surgery. Last year in the U.S., almost 800 men, women, and children died while waiting for suitable donor hearts.
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Organ transplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Organ transplant is the moving of an organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a work...
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; NOVA Online > Electric Heart > Operation: Heart Transplant; Map of the Human Heart | Amazing Heart Facts; The Artificial Human | Pioneering Surgeon | Operation: Heart Transplant; Resources | Transcript | Site Map | Electric Heart Home;
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Heart recipient John Fisher has created this website with information and resources for pre and post heart transplant patients. ... When I was first told I needed a heart transplant in order to live I was sure I was going to die either before, during or shortly after the operation, well that was over 8 years ago and I am...
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