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heart transplant
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heart transplant

Procedure to remove a diseased heart and replace it with a healthy one from a legally dead donor. The first was performed in 1967 by Christiaan Barnard. The diseased heart is removed (except for some atrial tissue to preserve nerve connections to the natural pacemaker). The new heart is put in place and connected to the recipient's blood vessels. Patients and donors are matched for tissue type, but the patient's immune system must still be suppressed to prevent rejection (see immunosuppression). A successful transplant can enable the recipient to have an active life for many years.



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8) A small qualitative study (9) investigated coping with prolonged hospitalization and the patients' use of coping strategies, and another study (10) has focused on the patient's spouse, who takes responsibility for 24-hour support between implantation of the VAD and heart transplantation if the patient returns home.
Psychosocial issues for patients with ventricular assist devices: a ... by Tsui, Steven / American Journal of Critical Care
To see whether the heart has untapped potential to resuscitate itself, Anversa and his colleagues studied cardiac stem cells in 52 hearts that had been removed from people during heart transplantation or shortly after death from a heart attack or another cause.
Cells in heart can regenerate dead tissue by Science News
``We fortunately were able to find a donor over the July Fourth weekend, and she successfully underwent heart transplantation and since that time has really had a beautiful and uneventful recovery with her and the new heart doing very well.
LITTLE WONDER BABY GOES HOME WITH NEW HEART by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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