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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. Heart transplants: How do they work and how are they ... - AOL

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   Meet the teams who battle against the clock to maximise the chance of successful heart transplants.

4. Artificial heart - Wikipedia

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   An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart.Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to complete heart transplantation surgery, but research is ongoing to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant (from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a deceased genetically engineered pig) is unavailable ...

5. 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.

6. Adult heart transplants to resume at Jackson’s Miami ... - AOL

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   After the heart transplant program’s suspension was confirmed, Jackson and Institute leaders met with a team of Herald reporters and editors and said they had also received anonymous complaints ...

7. 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 ...

8. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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   First Heart and Lung Transplant. Brenda Barber. 1984 - UK's first successful heart and lung transplant. 1984. 10 years. First human hand transplant. Earl Owen and Jean-Michel Dubernard. Clint Hallam. The transplanted hand was removed at request of recipient after about two and a half years on February 2, 2001.

9. Jackson overhauls top staff at heart transplant program, amid ...

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   Jackson Memorial Hospital’s heart transplant program, suspended since mid-March amid multiple investigations involving deaths, infections and other bad outcomes, has a new leadership team.