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2. Heart transplantation - Wikipedia

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   A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed. As of 2018, the most common procedure is to take a functioning heart, with or without both lungs, from a recently deceased ...

3. Christiaan Barnard - Wikipedia

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   Christiaan Barnard. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. [1][2] On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky who ...

4. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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   Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location. Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted within the same ...

5. Robotic surgery is evolving. Here's what that means for patients.

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   Robotic surgery is evolving. Here's what that means for patients. A medical team made history in September by performing the first fully robotic heart transplant at the King Faisal Specialist ...

6. Heart–lung transplant - Wikipedia

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   A heart–lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both failing heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors and because both heart and lung have to be transplanted together, it is a rare procedure; only about a hundred such transplants are performed each year in the United States.

7. Cardiothoracic surgery - Wikipedia

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   The operation was a success; however, Nix died three years later in 1963. [13] In March, 1961, Zuhdi, Carey, and Greer, performed open heart surgery on a child, age 3 + 1 ⁄ 2, using the total intentional hemodilution machine. In 1985 Zuhdi performed Oklahoma's first successful heart transplant on Nancy Rogers at Baptist Hospital.

8. Transplantable organs and tissues - Wikipedia

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   A heart-lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors, it is a rare procedure; only about a hundred such transplants are performed each year in the United States. [citation needed] The patient is anesthetised. When the donor organs arrive, they are checked ...

9. Teen's first words after heart transplant will bring ... - AOL

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   After waiting 8 months to receive a new heart, 15-year-old Trevor Sullivan underwent heart transplant surgery last November. Although the surgery came with risks, Trevor's family knew he wouldn't ...