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2. Heart transplantation - Wikipedia

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   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.

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. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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   In 1968 surgical pioneer Denton Cooley performed 17 transplants, including the first heart-lung transplant. Fourteen of his patients were dead within six months. By 1984 two-thirds of all heart transplant patients survived for five years or more.

5. Cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...

6. Dutch man confirmed as world’s longest-living heart ... - AOL

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   Janssen underwent transplant surgery in June that year after a heart became available following a tragic car crash in which two young adults died. Bert Janssen looks at a photograph of himself as ...

7. Organ procurement - Wikipedia

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   Heart and lungs should have less than 6 hours between organ procurement and transplantation. [13] For liver transplants, the cold ischemia time can be up to 24 hours, [ 13 ] although typically surgeons aim for a much shorter period of time.