Heart Transplant Operation
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Cheney Operation Underscores Heart Transplant Issues : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
npr.org — “The former vice president is recovering from a heart transplant he received over the weekend. Experts say it's unusual for a 71-year-old to get a transplant, but more and more older people are getting them as the procedures improve and the population ages.” View full resource at npr.org
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Heart Transplant, FAQs
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Heart Transplant FAQ: May I drink alcohol after recovering from my heart transplant operation? http://bit.ly/mBkCs0
Heart Transplant, FAQs
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Heart Transplant FAQ: What must be done differently at the dentist after a heart transplant? http://bit.ly/csRHY0
Heart transplant
webmd.com — “A heart transplant is a procedure in which a surgeon removes a diseased heart and replaces it with a donor heart.” View full resource at webmd.com
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Former VP Dick Cheney is recovering from a #heart #transplant, reports state. Learn more about this surgery. http://t.co/6MlZVNfh
Heart Transplant, History of Heart Transplantation
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In what country did the first heart transplant occur? http://bit.ly/lFgkJ6
Heart Transplant, About Heart Transplantation
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What is cardiac transplantation and when is it an appropriate treatment? http://bit.ly/knBJyf
BBC News - Heart transplant patients reunite at Papworth Hospital
news.bbc.co.uk — “Four people who had heart transplant operations in the same week 20 years ago are reunited at a Cambridgeshire hospital.” View full resource at news.bbc.co.uk
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Heart transplants and skin cancer
theheart.org — “A Mayo study shows that heart-transplant recipients have cumulative skin-cancer incidence rates of over 20% at five years and almost 50% at 15 years posttransplant and chances of a squamous-cell cancer within seven years.” View full resource at theheart.org
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Mayo Clinic study finds one in five heart transplant patients get skin cancer within five years. #health #cancer #heart http://bit.ly/6Q1bhV
Heart transplants and skin cancer
theheart.org — “A Mayo study shows that heart-transplant recipients have cumulative skin-cancer incidence rates of over 20% at five years and almost 50% at 15 years posttransplant and chances of a squamous-cell cancer within seven years.” View full resource at theheart.org
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One in five heart-transplant patients get skin cancer within five years http://bit.ly/4OgKfx #heartwire
A Pioneer In Heart Transplants
medicalnewstoday.com — “A memorial Mass will be said on Friday, Nov. 12 for former Loyola University Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Roque Pifarr, who performed the first heart transplant in Illinois.Dr.” View full resource at medicalnewstoday.com
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Mortality Prediction For Heart Transplant
medicalnewstoday.com — “Johns Hopkins researchers say they have developed a formula to predict which heart transplant patients are at greatest risk of death in the year following their surgeries, information that could h” View full resource at medicalnewstoday.com
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Heart Transplantation: eMedicine Transplantation
emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Cardiac transplantation is a widely accepted therapy for the treatment of end-stage congestive heart failure. Most candidates for cardiac transplantation have not been helped by conventional medical therapy and are excluded from other surgical options because of ...” View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com
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Cardiac transplantation is a widely accepted therapy for the treatment of end-stage congestive heart failure. http://bit.ly/aRhpxe
For Older, Sicker Heart-Transplant Patients, Hospitals Doing the Most Operations Yield Better Outcomes
newswise.com — “Older, sicker heart-transplant recipients are significantly more likely to be alive a year after their operations if they have their transplants at hospitals that do a large number of them annually new Johns Hopkins research suggests. These patients fare less well at low-volume centers, the research shows.” View full resource at newswise.com
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Warm, beating hearts offer transplant hope - Health - Heart health - msnbc.com
msnbc.msn.com — “Only about 100 people have received a "beating heart" transplant, an experimental operation that's mostly been done in Europe. The donor heart is placed into a special box that feeds it blood and keeps it warm and ticking outside the body.” View full resource at msnbc.msn.com
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Guidelines for care of heart transplant recipients
theheart.org — “They won't be fully published until next year, but the society's top brass gave the world a quick look during its 2010 annual meeting.” View full resource at theheart.org
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ISHLT leaders preview new guidelines for managing heart-transplant recipients: They won't be fully published until... http://bit.ly/9FyZqV
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