Index.html heart transplant Families Together is a voluntary selfhelp group, with charity status, for those whose children have had or are awaiting heart or http://www.htft.org.uk/
Extractions: About Us Home Page News Publications Committee Events ... Membership Home About us Publications News Events ... Download Newsletter Home Page HTFT is the only nation- wide group which helps families through, what can be , a very isolating experience. It is traumatic to be told that your child has an illness and that a heart or heart/lung transplant is one of the options. It is at this time that the support from someone with first hand knowledge of the stresses, that can suddenly become part of family life, is so often welcome.
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Operating at the end of Columbia's 50-foot robotic arm, spacewalkers on Tuesday installed Hubble's second of two new solar "arrays," or panels, designed to boost its energy by some 20 percent. By Porter Anderson Editor's note: The third of five Hubble spacewalks a sensitive one in which mission specialists John Grunsfeld and Richard Linnehan are to replace the telescope's "PCU," or power control unit is to begin at roughly 1:30 a.m. EST Wednesday and last for some seven hours. (CNN) Medical metaphors were everywhere as NASA prepared to mount Wednesday's third of five spacewalks at the orbiting shuttle Columbia on its Hubble-repair mission. "In 1993," program scientist Dave Leckrone said in a briefing, "we like to say we performed 'eye surgery' on Hubble to correct its poor vision." Then, in a 1999 mission, NASA changed out part of the Hubble's gyroscope hardware, "and a lot of us," said Leckrone, "referred to that as 'brain surgery.'
First Heart Transplant On December 3, 1967, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53year-old Lewis Washkansky. http://history1900s.about.com/b/a/047759.htm
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CBS 5: Heart Transplant Interrupts Wedding heart transplant Interrupts Wedding. Image. Tony Russomanno Reporting Most of the patients that we do heart transplants on today are out of the http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_203192307.html
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Heart Transplant CHOICE For Holy Cross Hospital Health and wellness services, medical information, and interactive health features for our user community. http://community.healthgate.com/GetContent.asp?siteid=holycross&docid=/dsp/heart
HEART AND HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTS heart transplants are performed in patients with heart failure due to weak A heart transplant is performed when all other options for treatment have http://www.healthyhearts.com/transplant.htm
Extractions: HEART AND HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTS TABLE OF CONTENTS: WHO GETS A TRANSPLANT Heart transplants are performed in patients with heart failure due to weak heart muscle. In most of these patients, the cause for the weak heart muscle is either unknown, due to a prior viral infection of the heart or due to blocked coronary arteries. Rarely, heart transplants are done on patients who have weak heart muscle due to valve disease or congenital heart disease. A heart transplant is performed when all other options for treatment have been exhausted. Included in this scenario are patients with blocked coronary arteries that are not amenable to a bypass operation or in whom severe, symptomatic heart failure persists despite a bypass operation. Similarly, patients with weak heart muscle due to valve or congenital disease may need a transplant if symptoms of weak heart muscle persist after surgical correction of the valvular or congenital problem. Patients in whom the weak heart muscle is due to a virus or unknown cause generally don't have any surgical options available to them
Heart Transplant, Welcome From Program Director than 70 of the over 2000 heart transplants undertaken nationwide in 2003. We sincerely believe that the care we provide our heart transplant patients is http://www.columbiasurgery.org/pat/hearttx/
Extractions: Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation We are pleased to welcome you to the website for the Cardiac Transplantation Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center (NYPH/Columbia). One of the top three heart transplants programs in the nation and one of the largest programs in the world, we have over 25 years of experience in caring for cardiac transplant patients. Under the guidance of Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD Director , Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs, and Donna Mancini, MD Medical Director , Cardiac Transplantation, we performed more than 70 of the over 2,000 heart transplants undertaken nationwide in 2003. Cardiac Transplantation Team, NYPH/Columbia The surgeons and cardiologists of NYPH/Columbia have a long and distinguished history of advancing "standards of care" by using innovative surgical techniques, applying our basic scientific research in immunosuppression to the clinical setting, and inventing and perfecting life-sustaining assist devices. In particular, we are recognized leaders in the development of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) that can either be used to prolong life while waiting for organ availability, or as a destination therapy for patients who are not eligible for transplantation. (To learn more about cardiac assist devices, please click here Transplant recipients are not passive participants in their health care. They must be proactive and influential activists during the entire process. They must maintain their health while waiting for an organ, manage the physical challenges of surgery and its long recovery period, and reintegrate themselves into family and work roles. They face many substantial lifestyle changes, including unceasing monitoring of cardiac and total health, an extensive medication regimen, and committing to healthy habits in eating and physical exercise.
Extractions: California Pacific initiated the nationâs first heart transplant service in a private institution in 1984 and has been at the forefront of disease management and transplant ever since. We were the first center in the nation to successfully place and maintain a patient on a bi-ventricular assist device (BiVAD) while waiting for a donor heart and have been a leader in developing the âbridge-to-transplantation.â
Heart Transplant, Research heart transplant Research. The following is a list of ongoing clinical research in cardiac surgery. To learn more about a specific investigation, http://www.columbiasurgery.org/pat/hearttx/research_hearttx.html
Extractions: Research The following is a list of ongoing clinical research in cardiac surgery. To learn more about a specific investigation, click on the trial name. Links to faculty profiles and further information about specific disease and conditions are also available. To learn more about what clinical trials are and how they work, please click here Acorn Device for Treatment of Heart Failure. Mehmet Oz, MD) Adult Stem Cells heart disease ... coronary heart disease . (Richard Sloan, PhD, 2002) Angiogenic Growth Factors Judah Weinberger, MD, PhD Application of IX/XI Inhibitor Jonathan M. Chen, MD Biventricular Pacing Henry M. Spotnitz, MD Closed-chest ASD Repair Michael Argenziano, MD EVEREST II ... mitral valve regurgitation . (Hal Wasserman, MD, 2004) Myocardial Edema Henry M. Spotnitz, MD Increased body mass index Mathew S. Maurer, MD LVAD Research ... mitral valve repair. ( Mehmet Oz, MD REMATCH trial heart failure Eric A. Rose, MD Radiofrequency Pulmonary Vein Isolation Michael Argenziano, MD ... Eric A. Rose, MD and Alan J. Moskowitz, MD
Chucky Gets Lucky step by step story of heart transplant. The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967 by the late South African surgeon Christian Barnard. http://whyfiles.org/142heart_transplant/
Extractions: 1. Chucky gets lucky 2. On bypass 3. New heart pumping 4. Recovery ... 5. The long run Chuck Reynolds waited more than three patient months for a heart transplant. A nurse himself, he was notorious for kidding the staff, but the wait was long and worrisome. *Photojournalism by David Tenenbaum (Unless noted otherwise, all photos, this feature, courtesy David Tenenbaum). Huge and misshapen, this heart is about to get replaced. That electronic gadget is a pacemaker and the wires connecting to the old heart. Beating death POSTED 18 OCT 2001 On Sept. 14, the National Day of Remembrance for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, Chucky finally got lucky. James (Chuck) Reynolds, 54, had been waiting in the hospital for three and one-half months for a heart. In other words, he was waiting for a generous stranger to die. A stranger with the correct blood type and a heart suited to Reynolds's large chest. Otherwise, Thomas Starkey, his heart surgeon at University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital, had told him he would die of heart failure. In fact, Reynolds was already rather far along in the process of retiring from life. A registered nurse from the hills of southwest Wisconsin, his failing heart prevented him from working, even caring for his three young boys.
Page Not Found A personal story of a heart transplant in November of 1994 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the William S. Middleton Veteran's Hospital in Madison. http://www.radiks.net/rlhelm/
NPR : Giving A Heart-Transplant Pioneer His Due Hamilton Naki, who died this week in Cape Town, South Africa, was a skilled medical worker who assisted in the world s first heart transplants. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4699484
Success, Life Expectancy, And Preservation Of Heart Transplants What is the life expectancy of a successful heart transplant patient? 2) Life expectancy folllowing heart transplant is somewhat harder to predict http://www.transweb.org/qa/asktw/answers/answers9509/Successlifeexpectancyandpr.
Extractions: 1) The success of heart transplantation obviously varies according to risk factors prior to transplantation. In general the success rate of the surgery is close to 95% in most centers on the average. Traditional risk factors include age over 60, patients transplanted who are on a ventilator, patients with an elevated panel reactive antibody level (antibodies in the blood to foreign antigens seen rarely), patients who have had a previous heart transplant, and patients who have high pressures in the pulmonary (lung) blood vessels. At this time, however, a standard transplant has a 95% or higher chance of being initially successful, and if you survive the initial 30 days the chances are close to 90% that you will be alive at the end of the first year. 2) Life expectancy folllowing heart transplant is somewhat harder to predict because it depends upon a number of factors including age, patient compliance, immunological match of donor to recipient, and the era in which you were transplanted. Again average survival, obtained from
Patient And Family Experiences A Sharing of One Man s heart transplant Experience an online version of Jim Gleason s One womans triumph over breast cancer and a heart transplant http://www.transweb.org/people/recips/heart.htm
Extractions: My Heart Transplant Experience , by Natalia L. "My Life as a Heart Child" (Robert Plotnek's transplant experience) Iris Epstein's Transplant Story (at the DelCimmuto family site) Diane Hebert's heart-lung transplant story (at the Diane Hebert Foundation site) "Dying for Life" online book by John Landers Pat Majeski's heart transplant ... "Keep Hope Alive" by a teenager (heart-kidney recipient) Just Another Transplant Story "Joshua Lentin: Child Heart Recipient With a Special Bond" (at Stadtlander's web site) Bob Fowler's heart transplant experience "Back to Work" "Forever Young At Heart" A Gift from the Heart ...A Sharing of One Man's Heart Transplant Experience ...an online version of Jim Gleason's book about his transplant (including "Some Days are Diamonds") with many articles on subjects like motivation, fear, nutrition, support from family and friends, a reading list, etc... "Green Pastures" , about Bob Brown (in the Evansville Courier) "A Change of Heart,"
UMHS - Heart Transplant Topics covered are who is a candidate for transplant, how it is done, complications, the survival rate for heart transplants and a number to help find a doctor. http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/heart/surg02.htm
Extractions: To find a doctor Who is a candidate for a heart transplant? Heart transplantation is a last-resort option for people with heart failure. To be considered for a heart transplant, a person's heart must be unresponsive to other forms of treatment and all other vital organs must be in excellent health. How is heart transplantation done? The surgery must be performed immediately after a suitable donor heart becomes available. The recipient is placed on a heart-lung machine that takes over the functions of the heart and lungs so the diseased heart can be removed and replaced with the new heart. Once the blood vessels are reconnected, the heart is ready to function. Are there any complications? One of the main complications following heart transplantation is rejection. The body's immune system treats the new organ as foreign tissue and produces antibodies to destroy it. Immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporine (sie-klo-SPOR-in) are given to suppress this response. In cases of severe rejection, retransplantation may be considered if a new donor can be found. In the past, side effects of anti-rejection drugs kept elderly persons and infants from being recipients of heart transplants. Now, improvements in the field have made it possible for many newborns to those in their seventies to be eligible for a transplant.
Heart Failure, Heart Transplant heart transplant is a surgical treatment for heart failure, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation is one of the largest heart transplant centers. http://www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/guide/disease/heartfailure/transp
Extractions: Heart Guide Vascular Guide History of Innovations About Us ... Dictionary Treating the Heart, Blood Vessels and Circulation Heart Transplant Cleveland Clinic Cardiac Transplant Program Improved outcomes are due to selection of appropriate candidates and donors; improvement in pre-transplant support, advances in immunosuppressant medications, and better protection from infection. Click here to learn more When medications and surgery fail to manage heart failure symptoms and progression, cardiac transplant is considered as a treatment option. Cardiac transplant improves length and quality of life for patients with end-stage heart failure. Screening Before someone is placed on the heart transplant list, they are placed through a careful screening process. A multidisciplinary team of heart doctors, nurses, social workers, and bioethicists review the medical history, diagnostic test results, social history and psychosocial evaluation results to see if the patient is able to survive the procedure and then, comply with the continuous care needed to live a long healthy life.
Transplant Center Heart Transplant The Cleveland Clinic Foundation performed its first heart transplant on August 15, The Cleveland Clinic heart transplant program is a member of the Ohio http://www.clevelandclinic.org/transplant/services/heart.htm
Extractions: For the 10th year in a row, says the nation's busiest heart center is also the nation's best. The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center tops the magazine's 2004 list of best heart and heart surgery hospitals. The Cleveland Clinic heart transplant program is a member of the Ohio Solid Organ Transplant Consortium (OSOTC) and the United Network For Organ Sharing (UNOS). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has certified CCF as a Medicare Center for heart transplantation. At the Cleveland Clinic, we reflect upon heart transplantation as a complex process with ethical implications. This is because donor organs are scarce and transplant management is a life-long concern requiring compliance to a doctor prescribed regimen that includes a healthy diet, exercise, and long-term medication. The first step in establishing a treatment partnership with the CCF Heart Transplant Team is undergoing an evaluation for your (your child's) suitability as a transplant candidate. We rely upon a series of tests and evaluations with specialists to ascertain your transplant eligibility. Not all patients are clinically appropriate for transplantation, as there may be findings that would predict failure of the transplanted organ. Furthermore, not all patients referred will need transplantation, as many alternatives exist.
Science Netlinks: 9-12 E-Sheet Why is there an interest in substitute heart transplants? What is the life expectancy of donated human heart transplant patients today? What are LVADs? http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/Esheet.cfm?DocID=48
Heart Transplant Story Personal account of a heart transplant in 1997, before, during and after the procedure. http://www.geocities.com/ehtlibahunt/transplant.html
Extractions: My heart problems began with rheumatic fever at age 10. I seemed to recover ok but was left with a murmur. I had my first heart cath in 1967. It was quite a big deal then, including 5 days in the hospital; things sure have changed over the years! I found out in the mid '70s (by reading an unattended file, not by being directly told) that I had Cardiomyopathy. I slowly deteriorated through the 1970s and '80s and got much worse about 1990. I couldn't breathe lying down, stairs were a major effort that had to be planned for, constantly nauseous and exhausted, and I got hauled out of work once on a stretcher. My weight dropped from 242 to 165. Then I also went into atrial fribulation in 1992.
