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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 ...
A boy who spent nearly his entire first year of life hospitalized was able to celebrate his first birthday at home after undergoing a complex heart transplant. Parker Helmerich of Tulsa, Oklahoma ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two sisters have grateful hearts after they both received heart transplants at the same age—seven years apart. Younger sister Meredith Everhart and older sister Abbey Cannon are ...
A beating heart awaiting transplant. American medical researcher Simon Flexner was one of the first people to mention the possibility of heart transplantation. In 1907, he wrote the paper "Tendencies in Pathology," in which he said that it would be possible one day by surgery to replace diseased human organs – including arteries, stomach, kidneys and heart.
After being put on a low-cholesterol diet, Stormie suffered a heart attack and underwent double bypass heart surgery that October. She suffered a second heart attack almost two months later, requiring a second bypass operation and an artificial mitral valve. Susie Jones was also told that her daughter had less than a year to live.
Kelly Perkins is an American heart transplant recipient known for climbing mountains to inspire others and promote organ donation.She has set world records as the first ever heart transplant recipient to scale the most famous mountains in the world.
Owen needed a heart transplant or new heart valves, and quick. That’s when Joseph Turek, chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at Duke, told Tayler and Nick he wanted to try a living-tissue partial ...
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the sum of activity and interventions required to ensure the best possible physical, mental, and social conditions so that patients with chronic or post-acute cardiovascular disease may, by their own efforts, preserve or resume their proper place in society and lead an active life". [1]