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2. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma associated with chronic ...

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   While DLBCL-CI, particularly in its PAL form, is an aggressive lymphoma with a five-year overall survival rate of 20–35%, FA-DLBCL, usually has a highly favorable outcome except when it involves the heart (e.g. in myxomas or on prosthetic valves) or vasculature structures (e.g. on thrombus-laden vascular grafts), in which cases life ...

3. 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 ...

4. Transplantable organs and tissues - Wikipedia

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   The operation typically lasts 8 to 12 hours. By comparison, a typical heart transplant operation lasts 6 to 8 hours. The recipient of a hand transplant needs to take immunosuppressive drugs, as the body's natural immune system will try to reject, or destroy, the hand. These drugs cause the recipient to have a weak immune system and react ...

5. Heart transplantation - Wikipedia

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   The prognosis for heart transplant patients following the orthotopic procedure has improved over the past 20 years, and as of June 5, 2009 the survival rates were: [54] 1 year: 88.0% (males), 86.2% (females)

6. Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder - Wikipedia

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   PTLD is the second most common malignancy that occurs as a complication following solid organ transplantation (skin cancer is the most common). Less commonly, PTLD occurs after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The incidence varies by the type of transplantation: the lowest rates are seen with bone marrow transplants and liver transplants.

7. Lymphoma - Wikipedia

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   The five-year survival rate in the United States for all Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes is 85%, [4] while that for non-Hodgkin lymphomas is 69%. [15] Worldwide, lymphomas developed in 566,000 people in 2012 and caused 305,000 deaths. [16] They make up 3–4% of all cancers, making them as a group the seventh-most-common form.