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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. 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 ...

4. Donald Ross (surgeon) - Wikipedia

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   Donald Nixon Ross, FRCS (4 October 1922 – 7 July 2014) was a South African-born British thoracic surgeon who was a pioneer of cardiac surgery and led the team that carried out the first heart transplantation in the United Kingdom in 1968. He developed the pulmonary autograft, known as the Ross procedure, for treatment of aortic valve disease.

5. Total Artificial Heart (TAH) Implant: What to Know - AOL

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   A total artificial heart is a polyurethane device designed to mimic the action of the heart's left and right ventricles. It helps the heart pump adequate blood through the body while someone waits ...

6. Heart of the team: How Westchester Med nurse practitioners ...

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   Richard Grehl from Suffern, a heart transplant recipient, is pictured with the team of cardiac care Nurse Practitioners at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, Feb. 29, 2024.

7. The U.S. is modernizing its 39-year-old organ transplant ...

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   As a patient less than three years out from the quadruple organ failure that led to my emergency heart transplant, and as the father of a two-year-old with another child on the way, I don’t ...

8. Artificial heart valve - Wikipedia

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   Artificial heart valve. An artificial heart valve is a one-way valve implanted into a person's heart to replace a heart valve that is not functioning properly (valvular heart disease). Artificial heart valves can be separated into three broad classes: mechanical heart valves, bioprosthetic tissue valves and engineered tissue valves.

9. Heart–lung transplant - Wikipedia

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   MeSH. D016041. [edit on Wikidata] 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 ...