News tagged with heart transplants
Boy came for a liver, but left with a heart
Apr 14, 2009 |
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It started as something of a medical mystery that, at first, doctors couldn't figure out.
Risk score helps identify candidates for combined heart and kidney transplants
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified a set of criteria that, when combined with a measure of kidney function, could help identify patients who are likely to receive a survival benefit from a combined heart and kidney transplant, according ...
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New Zealand scientists develop wireless heart pump
Sep 16, 2009 |
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New Zealand scientists have developed the technology for a wireless heart pump they say could save thousands of lives and offer an alternative to heart transplants.
Heart transplants: Do more or do none, study suggests
Jan 29, 2008 |
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Heart surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence to support further tightening rather than easing of standards used to designate hospitals that are best at performing heart transplants.
Central nervous system infections rare but devastating following heart transplantation
Oct 08, 2007 |
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Central nervous system infections develop infrequently following heart transplants but are a significant predictor of death, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the December 2007 print issue of ...
Singaporean has Asia's first combined heart, liver swap
Apr 24, 2009 |
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A 58-year-old Singaporean pastor is recovering well after undergoing Asia's first simultaneous heart and liver transplant, his medical team said Friday.
Researchers find molecular 'key' to successful blood stem cell transplants
Apr 22, 2009 |
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University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a "molecular key" that could help increase the success of blood stem cell transplants, a procedure currently used to treat diseases such as leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma ...
Tobacco smoke exposure before heart transplantation may increase the risk of transplant failure
Nov 24, 2009 |
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A study conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore provides the first direct evidence that cigarette smoke exposure prior to a heart transplant in either the donor, recipient, or both, accelerates ...
Hidden heart condition increases the risk of death in patients waiting for kidney transplants
May 15, 2008 |
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An often asymptomatic condition—systolic dysfunction, or decreased pumping of the heart—poses an increased risk of death for patients on kidney transplant waiting lists, according to a study appearing in the June 2008 issue ...
Minority children waiting for heart transplants have higher death rates
Nov 11, 2008 |
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Minority children awaiting a donor heart for transplant have a higher death rate than white children, even after controlling for clinical risk factors, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific ...
Newer heart devices significantly improve survival, complication rate and quality of life
Nov 17, 2009 |
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A new generation of implanted devices that help a failing heart function properly is significantly more effective than the previous version, making these new devices an appropriate permanent therapy for many of the more than ...
British girl's heart heals itself after transplant
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.
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