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  1. Mr. NewHeart (New Heart): Heart Attack to Transplant and Beyond by David Hollar, 2007-06-14
  2. Kidney Transplant - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References by ICON Health Publications, 2004-04-13
  3. Great Medical Discoveries - Organ Transplants (Great Medical Discoveries) by James Barter, 2005-10-10
  4. Bone Marrow Transplants: A Book of Basics by Susan K. Stewart, 1995-08-01
  5. Through The Fire: The True Story of The Death To Life Experiences of A Preacher Who Recieved A Heart Transplant by John W. Watts, 2004-02-13
  6. Greg: A Liver Transplant Recipient by Gregory Gaines Jr., 2007-01-18
  7. 2008 Kidney Transplant Planner by Diane Lem, Johann, M.D. Jonsson, 2007-10-30
  8. A Change of Heart: Journal of a Heart Transplant by Bill Long, 1999-05
  9. A Heart for Granddaddy: A Heart Transplant Story by Ed Sullivan, 2005-07-18
  10. Plug & Transplant Production: A Grower's Guide by Roger C. Styer, David S. Koranski, 1997-01-01
  11. Manual of Lung Transplant Medical Care
  12. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANT SURGEONS ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY.
  13. Time Shared: The Miracle of Transplant by Barba Covington McCarty, 2002-11
  14. The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric, and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation

101. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Blood & Bone Marrow Transplantation, Stem Cell Tr
Current research and treatments involving blood and marrow transplantation including studies of stem cell and cord blood transplants.
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102. 2005.03.29: New High Set For Organ Transplants
New High Set for Organ transplants. Nearly 27000 individuals received transplants last year. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced today that 26984 Americans
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050329.html
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New High Set for Organ Transplants
Nearly 27,000 individuals received transplants last year HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced today that 26,984 Americans received an organ transplant last year, setting a new national record. The increase in organ donations come in the wake of concentrated efforts led by HHS to boost consent rates for organ donation, which began in 2001. "I am heartened that the promise of organ donation continues to save more and more lives every year," Secretary Leavitt said. "For each life saved, hope, for others in need, grows; we must continue to grow and share that hope across the nation." Deceased donors can give multiple organs that will improve or save the lives of several people. In 2004, there were more than 20,000 transplant operations utilizing organs from more than 7,000 deceased donors, an increase of close to 11 percent over the 2003 total. That increase was the largest in the last 10 years and the second highest annual increase since national records began to be collected in 1987. Organ transplants from deceased donors rose by 1,368 (18,650 to 20,018) from 2003 to 2004, a 7.3 percent increase. In addition, transplant operations using an organ donated by a living person also hit a new high 6,966 in 2004. That number grew by 154 (6,812 to 6,966) from 2003 to 2004, a 2.3 percent increase. Organ donations from living persons are limited to a single organ, usually the kidney, or piece of a single organ. Human beings have two kidneys but can lead healthy lives with only one.

103. Heart, Lung, Liver And Kidney Transplant Surgery
Part of the University of Southern California Department of Surgery. Heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants.
http://www.usctransplant.org
What's New: Pancreas Transplant Web Site USC Multi-Organ Transplant Program Only a generation ago, there was little hope for people with failing hearts, lungs, livers or kidneys. Today, the USC Multi-Organ Transplant Program , consisting of heart lung liver kidney and pancreas transplant, offers such patients a second chance at life and better health. The Transplant Program has earned a reputation of technical excellence, cutting-edge research and high success rates. A world pioneer in live-donor transplants, the Program offers a unique service: Patients with one or more family members willing to donate a lung lobe, kidney or a portion of a liver may have the procedures performed when the need presents itself, without waiting for a cadaveric organ. USC doctors also are known for advances in transfusion-free medicine and surgery. USC transplant surgeries take place at several facilities, including:
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  • USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
  • The Doheny Eye Institute
To create a complete teaching and research institution, teams of highly skilled and experienced specialists from a wide variety of disciplines come together to best meet the needs of patients and their families. The teams perform hundreds of transplants every year-each carried out and followed up with personal care and medical treatment that ensures the best experience and the greatest chance of success.

104. Waiting For Transplants
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism and the Austrian School of economics.
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105. Welcome To Meadowview Tree Farm
Small tree nursery in New York, offering bareroot tree seedlings and transplants for conservation practices, as well as an assortment of shrubs and perennials. Index of varieties offered, wholesale information.
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106. Neural Cell Transplants Fight Immune Attack In Mice With Multiple Sclerosis
The July 14, 2005 Nature publishes unexpected results in which adult mouse neural stem cells injected into mice with multiple sclerosis (MS) suppressed
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Neural Cell Transplants Fight Immune Attack In Mice With Multiple Sclerosis
Researchers at the San Raffaele Hospital (Milan, Italy) published unexpected results of studies in which immature nerve cells (adult mouse neural stem cells) injected into the blood of mice with MS-like disease were able to suppress the immune attacks that damage the brain and spinal cord tissues. The study, funded in part by the National MS Society, is being reported by Drs. Stefano Pluchino, Gianvito Martino and colleagues in the July 14, 2005 issue of Nature. These surprising findings, if confirmed, suggest that neural stem cells that reside in the adult brain may not only serve as replacement cells for tissue repair, but in some circumstances may also protect the brain from inflammation. Further research is needed to confirm these results and to address multiple issues involved in translating such experiments into finding ways to fight the immune attack and protect and repair brain tissues in people with MS. Related News Stories Transplanted Neural Stem Cells Migrate Throughout The Abnormal Brain, Reduce Disease Symptoms

107. The Cole Clinic - Welcome
Hair transplants, personally performed by Dr. Cole in Windsor.
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108. Precise Timing Enabled Pig-to-rat Transplants To Cure Diabetes
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned that a temporal window of opportunity was critical to their earlier
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Precise Timing Enabled Pig-to-rat Transplants To Cure Diabetes
May 16, 2005 Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned that a temporal "window of opportunity" was critical to their earlier successes in treating diabetic rats with embryonic pig tissues. Related News Stories Embryonic Pig Cell Transplants Halt Rat Diabetes (February 26, 2004) An experimental cross-species transplant to treat diabetes has passed an early test in rats with better-than-expected results, suggesting the innovative approach might halt type 1 diabetes while ... full story Newly Grown Kidneys Can Sustain Life In Rats (June 22, 2004) Growing new organs to take the place of damaged or diseased ones is moving from science fiction to reality, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ... full story Pioneering PET/CT Research Widens Applications Of Imaging For Diabetic Foot (March 13, 2005)

109. EuroBank - QLTI-CT-2000-00010
Aims to develop a datadase of cell lines and DNA drawn from over 500 bone marrow or cord blood transplants across Europe and clinical outcomes.
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Welcome Bone marrow and cord-blood transplants are life-saving therapy for patients with Leukemia, Lymphoma and other haematological disorders. Over 4000 such transplants are carried out in Europe every year. Unfortunately, 40% of patients develop complications because the donor's bone marrow attacks their body. This can happen even where the donors and patients are as closely matched as brothers and sisters. This project aims to develop a 'bank' of cell lines and DNA drawn from over 500 transplants across Europe. The details are stored in a database which will enable scientists and clinicians to find out more about the risks to patients after bone marrow or cord blood transplants. The importance of this is that a better understanding of genetic matching will enable doctors to choose the best type of transplant, donor and after-care for the patient. The purpose of this web portal is to allow the participants to communicate with one another on-line.
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110. Bone Loss After Liver Transplants Can Be Prevented
The results of a new study published in the August 2005 issue of Liver Transplantation found that the drug used to treat osteoporosis,
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-07/jws-bla072005.php
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Bone loss after liver transplants can be prevented
A new study found that the drug used to treat osteoporosis, when used in combination with calcium and vitamin D, can prevent the additional bone loss that commonly occurs after liver transplants. The treatment also helped stabilize bone loss in patients who already had osteoporosis, and helped improve their bone mineral density (BMD). http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/livertransplantion Osteoporosis occurs in a large number of patients with end stage liver disease, and is often worsened by the immunosuppressive drugs normally given to prevent rejection following liver transplants. To date, however, studies have not been conducted and no guidelines exist for the treatment of bone loss following liver transplant. In order to determine the effectiveness of medication in preventing bone loss after liver transplants, researchers led by Gunda Millonig of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Innsbruck Medical University in Innsbruck, Austria, assessed osteoporosis in 136 pre-liver transplant patients between January 1999 and December 2003. All patients on the waiting list were given 1000 mg of calcium and 400 IE of vitamin D daily, and bisphosphonate (alendronate, the drug used to treat osteoporosis) was given following liver transplant to those patients who had either osteopenia (a decrease in bone density that can lead to osteoporosis) or osteoporosis before transplant. Patients whose BMD decreased following the transplant were also given bisphosphonate.

111. New Transplant Offers Hope In Inherited Disorders
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112. Xenotransplantation (animal To Human Transplants)
Xenotransplantation (animal to human transplants) involves horrific animal cruelty and will risk virus transfer from animals (pigs) to humans (Porcine
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"The shocking truth behind Britain's most high-profile animal experimentation project...The secret papers show horrific animal suffering despite claims to the contrary. They also reveal researchers have exaggerated the success of work aimed at adapting pig organs for human transplant." Daily Express 21.09.00 Uncaged Campaigns has achieved an astonishing legal success by winning the right to publish the Diaries of Despair report and over a thousand pages of confidential documents that describe in unique detail harrowing experiments involving the transplant of GM pig organs into five hundred higher primates. A second leak of related documents, from the Home Office, are included in the published dossier. Visit our dedicated website at www.xenodiaries.org

113. CNN - Report Finds Wide Disparity In Survival In Heart, Liver Transplants - Octo
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Report finds wide disparity in survival in heart, liver transplants
October 13, 1999 Web posted at: 3:22 a.m. EDT (0722 GMT) In this story: Bill would reduce government power over transplant network Liver transplants show varied results RELATED STORIES, SITES WASHINGTON (AP) Patients' chances of getting a new liver or heart and surviving at least a year differ vastly depending on what hospital treats them, according to a first-ever government study that found a "striking" disparity in the success of U.S. transplant centers. The report was obtained by The Associated Press a day before legislation remaking the nation's transplant policies is expected to pass the House Commerce Committee.

114. Face Transplant Takes Leave Of Science Fiction - Health & Science - Internationa
The medical challenges to face transplants are formidable. As Siemionow envisions it, the series of operations will require rotating teams of specialists
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    By Michael Mason The New York Times WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2005 In an emergency room at a Finnish hospital, a man lay unconscious on an operating table as surgeons labored to reattach the hand he had lost hours earlier while chopping wood. Medical miracles take many forms, but few are as vivid and immediate as this: As the tiny blood vessels were sutured back together, the patient's hand flushed from porcelain to pink. The delicate tendons of the palm revived, and the skin's granite glaze began to soften. The man's fortunes had taken a remarkable turn. So, too, had those of Dr. Maria Siemionow, a surgical resident assisting in the operation. "That you could restore to people a part of themselves that had been lost, and actually see it become vital again, was miraculous to me," said Siemionow, a native of Poland who trained in Finland and the United States. "I have never forgotten that day."

115. IOPO - Indiana Organ Donation Organization
Assists individuals and families in making the decision to donate organs and tissue to individuals in need of transplants.
http://www.iopo.org
Indiana Organ Procurement Organization (IOPO) is the nonprofit health service dedicated to advancing organ, tissue, and eye donation throughout Indiana. In honor of approximately 1000 Hoosiers who have left a legacy of life by donating their organs and on behalf of more than 500 Hoosiers who are waiting for a transplant, IOPO provides this information about organ, tissue and eye donation. Donor families, organ recipients and people waiting for transplants realize that there are no guarantees in life. So make the most of each day. Live life fully, and consider giving life through donation. IOPO 429 North Pennsylvania Street, Suite 201, Indianapolis, IN 46204
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116. CHFpatients.com - Heart Transplant - Pregnancy And Transplant
When mothers had wellfunctioning transplants, the birth weight of surviving babies Title Jefferson Study Evaluates Impact Of transplants on Pregnancy
http://www.chfpatients.com/tx/txpregnancy.htm
Please read this! A reader recently e-mailed me, upset that this page made getting pregnant after a heart transplant sound like a bad idea - so I did further research. That research convinced me that getting pregnant after an organ transplant is very risky - but exactly how risky is impossible to know. The risks are worse for the baby than for the mother. In Medpseak (doctor talk), "successful" has a different meaning. In Medspeak, if 100 heart recipients get pregnant and two of them have fairly healthy babies but the other 98 babies die, then "women heart recipients can successfully have children" is a valid statement. Doctors are trained to think this way. Please be aware of this when reading medical studies.
Pregnancy After Transplant
May, 2000 - Provided there is good organ function, pregnancy may be attempted. However, unpredictable problems can happen, raising concern among doctors and patients alike about the safety of pregnancy after heart transplant. Each group of organ recipients has its own issues and problems specific to the original disease and the specific transplanted organ. Immunosuppressive therapy must be maintained throughout pregnancy.

117. Western Maine Nurseries Conifers And Woody Ornamentals Since 1923
Suppliers of hardy evergreen seedlings and transplants including over 300 varieties of woody ornamentals.
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118. History Of Stem Cell Transplants
The history of advancements in stem cell transplantation is intricately linked to the development and growth of the National Marrow Donor Program.
http://www.marrow.org/NMDP/history_stem_cell_transplants.html
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Early Stem Cell History Nearly a century ago, physicians administered bone marrow by mouth to patients with anemia and leukemia. Although such therapy was unsuccessful, laboratory experimenters eventually demonstrated that mice with defective marrow could be restored to health with infusions into the blood stream of marrow taken from other mice. This caused physicians to speculate whether it was feasible to transplant bone marrow from one human to another (allogeneic transplantation). Among the early attempts to do this were several transplants carried out in France following a radiation accident in the late 1950s.
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Discovery of HLA System Performing marrow transplants in humans was not attempted on a larger scale until after a French medical researcher made a critical discovery about the human immune system. In 1958 Jean Dausset described the first of many human histocompatibility antigens. These proteins, found on the surface of most cells in the body, are called human leukocyte antigens, or HLA antigens. These HLA antigens give the body's immune system the ability to determine what belongs in the body and what does not belong. Whenever the immune system does not recognize the series of antigens on a cell that mark it as belonging in the body, it creates antibodies and other substances to destroy the cell. Objects that the body looks for and destroys are infection-causing bacteria, viruses, tumor cells and foreign objects such as splinters. In this way, the immune system defends the body against things that can enter the body and cause harm.

119. Dr. Robert Jones Toronto Hair Transplant Center
Providing hair transplants, liposuction, and botox treatments, with patient information about each procedure. Clinics in Oakville and Etobicoke.
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120. History Of Marrow And Blood Cell Transplants
The history of advancements in marrow and blood cell transplantation is intricately linked to the development and growth of the National Marrow Donor
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Early Transplant History
Nearly a century ago, physicians administered bone marrow by mouth to patients with anemia and leukemia. Although such therapy was unsuccessful, laboratory experimenters eventually demonstrated that mice with defective marrow could be restored to health with infusions into the blood stream of marrow taken from other mice. This caused physicians to speculate whether it was feasible to transplant bone marrow from one human to another (allogeneic transplantation). Among the early attempts to do this were several transplants carried out in France following a radiation accident in the late 1950s.
Discovery of HLA System
Performing marrow transplants in humans was not attempted on a larger scale until after a French medical researcher made a critical discovery about the human immune system. In 1958 Jean Dausset described the first of many human histocompatibility antigens. These proteins, found on the surface of most cells in the body, are called human leukocyte antigens, or HLA antigens. The body's immune system uses these HLA antigens to identify which cells belong in the body and which do not. Whenever the immune system does not recognize the antigens on a cell, it creates antibodies and other substances to destroy the cell. Objects that the body looks for and destroys are infection-causing bacteria, viruses, tumor cells and foreign objects such as splinters. In this way, the immune system defends the body against things that can enter the body and cause harm.

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