Natural History And Diagnosis Of Cardiac Transplant ...
The risk was only slightly greater in patients who had coronary artery disease as the cause of their original heart disease compared to those with nonischemic cardiomyopathy (1) . Other factors significantly associated with transplant ... [... more]
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Transplant Waiting List
Antibody refers to proteins the body usually makes in response to other proteins that are not familiar to your body such as infections, blood transfusions, pregnancy and transplants. The job of antibody is to protect the body from whatever might ... [... more]
Kidney Association |
Kidney Transplant
Most private health insurance policies cover many expenses associated with kidney transplants, including medications. In addition, most kidney transplant candidates are eligible for Medicare, which will cover 80 percent of the cost of the ... [... more]
Kidney Association |
Financing A Transplant
Because costs start adding up, even before your transplant, it is common for patients to rely on several sources to help pay for all of the medical and non-medical costs of pre- and post-transplantation. No matter where you are in the transplant ... [... more]
Transplant Living |
Heart Transplant
Timing is very important because there is no good way to keep a donor heart alive for long periods of time. A person in need of a heart transplant may be kept alive on artificial heart devices for longer and longer ... [... more]
National Library of Medicine |
Manual of Lung Transplant Medical Care (Transplant Care ...
 Describes the optimal procedures to follow in the care of the lung transplant patient - beginning prior to the time of first referral and continuing through the rest of the patient's post-operative life. [... more]
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Great Medical Discoveries - Organ Transplants (Great ...
Organ transplantation is one of the major medical triumphs of the last fifty years. Today, surgeons routinely remove dying livers, kidneys, lungs, and heart and replace with healthy donated ones. Yet the triumph is not without its tragedies. Shortages of ... [... more]
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Infection In The Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
The risks of infection and an overview of specific infections in the solid organ transplant recipient will be reviewed here. The pretransplant evaluation for solid organ and bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients, prophylaxis of infections in ... [... more]
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Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant: A Short History of Failing ...
Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant: A Short History of Failing Kidneys [... more]
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Heart Transplants In Infants And Children
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is the most common complex congenital heart defect for which a heart transplant is a potentially useful treatment. In this condition the heart's lower left pumping chamber (the left ventricle) and the large artery ... [... more]
American Heart Association |
Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society
Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital ... [... more]
$55.00
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The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon
Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant surgery should ... [... more]
$18.00
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