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It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, of which is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Mandeep R. Mehra (Harvard Medical School). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 13.569, the highest of any journal in cardiothoracic surgery ...
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 United States.
Illustration showing the process of a lung transplant. In figure A, the airway and blood vessels between a recipient's diseased right lung and heart are cut. The inset image shows the location of the lungs and heart in the body. In figure B, a healthy donor lung is stitched to the recipient's blood vessels and airway.
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.
A heart-lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors, it is a rare procedure; only about a hundred such transplants are performed each year in the United States. [citation needed] The patient is anesthetised. When the donor organs arrive, they are checked ...
This process of decellularizing tissues and organs is still being developed, but the exact process of taking a tissue from a donor and removing all the cellular components is considered to be the decellularization process. The steps to go from a decellularized ECM scaffold to a functional organ is under the umbrella of recellularization.
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.
In 1984, he performed the world’s first successful paediatric heart transplant. [30] 1994–1995: John Wallwork: Wallwork performed the world's first heart-lung and liver transplant with Sir Roy Calne in 1986. [31] 1995–1996: Sharon Hunt: Pioneered work on post-operative care of heart transplant patients. [32] 1996–1997: William Baumgartner