21. CHFpatients.com - Heart Transplant - The Straight Story Your heart transplant costs might be reimbursed by Medicare if you are Medicare eligible and the transplant is done at a Medicare approved center. http://www.chfpatients.com/tx/transplant.htm

Who can get a new heart? Cost, insurance, procedures and more What tests must I take to see if I qualify for a donor heart? Who will be on my transplant team? How will I know when a donor heart is ready for me? ... Real-life stories from transplant recipients Who can get a new heart? These are not absolute guidelines, since each transplant center is allowed to set its own rules for who is eligible. If you don't qualify, read this You must be less than 69 years old when put on the waiting list You must show no evidence of active infections or cancer at time of transplant You must show no evidence of disease affecting arterial circulation to your brain or legs (significant underlying disease in major arteries lowers chances of long-term survival after transplant) Results of your physical evaluation tests must be considered adequate You must be psychologically "suitable" You must fully understand the risks and requirements for taking medications You must be committed to actively participating in the rehab process after transplant You must not have smoked or used alcohol for at least 3 months before being put on the transplant waiting list, and you must be trusted not to smoke or drink afterward

22. CHFpatients.com - Heart Transplant - Meds Material taken from manuals given to potential transplant recipients at transplant centers in the USA, and from heart transplant recipients Updated January 3 http://www.chfpatients.com/tx/txmeds.htm

Your Meds As explained on the last page , you must take drugs to minimize organ rejection. Every heart recipient is expected to have at least 2 episodes of rejection. Hopefully, they will be mild enough that you can be treated as an outpatient by juggling meds. If your symptoms are severe acute rejection you will be hospitalized and IV drugs used. If that fails, you may need to be placed back on the waiting list for another heart. Noncompliance is the third most common reason for transplant failure! You must take your meds exactly as prescribed exactly on time if you want to live and live well! If you forget to take a dose and then remember that you didn't take it, call your transplant coordinator immediately. If you vomit a dose up or have diarrhea, call your transplant coordinator. Don't just decide on your own to skip a dose, change a dose, or repeat a dose - very bad idea. You will need regular blood tests to check your blood level of certain drugs. Those tests are explained on each individual drug page (see below). First, here are some general do's and don'ts concerning your transplant meds Do's Memorize your meds by name and look, and know why take you each one

23. Heart has dramatically changed since Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world s first heart transplant on December 3, 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.lhsc.on.ca/transplant/heart.htm

Heart transplantation Heart transplantation has dramatically changed since Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant on December 3, 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa. Anti-rejection drugs and other advances during the 1980s have made heart transplantation an effective therapy for carefully selected patients with advanced heart disease. How does the heart work? The heart is a hollow organ with tough, muscular walls located under the breast bone (sternum). The heart is about the size of a fist and contracts rhythmically to pump blood to the lungs and to the rest of the body. The heart is divided into two sides by a vertical wall (septum). Each side of the heart again divides into upper and lower chambers. Valves inside these chambers prevent blood from flowing backwards. The heart receives deoxygenated blood from all parts of the body, and pumps this blood to the lungs. Here, the lungs supply the blood with oxygen. After receiving this oxygen-rich blood, the heart pumps it back to the body through the aorta (the largest blood vessel leaving the left side of the heart). Because the heart is a muscle doing continuous work, it needs its own oxygen-rich blood supply. This blood is supplied by the coronary arteries which branch off from the aorta. Who needs a heart transplant?

24. Heart Transplant Or Life Transplant Presentation on a new life and how to receive one. http://www.lifetransplant.homestead.com/

@import url(http://www.homestead.com/~media/elements/Text/font_styles.css); Heart Transplant ne of the wonders of modern medical science is the ability to give someone a new heart. These heart transplants give new life to recipients who need them. Through their own deaths, donors provide new life to those who are dying. But these transplanted hearts will not last forever. They too will one day cease to beat. The life they give is only temporary. Have you ever wished you could have a new life. . . a life far different than one you have ever experienced? Are you in pain, bored, without purpose, addicted, hopeless, lonely or afraid of dying? God has good news for you! He is willing and able to give you a life transplant! A brand new life! Are you interested? Click on red button. (c) Patricia Wagner 2002 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT LIFE TRANSPLANT: What is a life transplant? Who is eligible to receive a life transplant? ... How can I receive a life transplant? View landscape art and by Patricia Wagner This page was last updated on: December 31, 2003 or

25. Linux Gets Heart Transplant With 2.6.0 | CNET News.com Linux gets heart transplant with 2.6.0 Top programmers release a major update to Linux, version 2.6.0, a change that s expected to help carry the opensource http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5128546.html

CNET News.com CNET tech sites: Price comparisons Product reviews Tech news Downloads ... E-mail alerts! Sign up now by company topic , or keyword Get News around the Web (beta) Linux gets heart transplant with 2.6.0 Last modified: December 17, 2003, 10:05 PM PST By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com update Top programmers on Wednesday released a major update to Linux, version 2.6.0, a change that's expected to help carry the open-source operating system into new markets. The new version of the core, or kernel, of Linux has several changes that make Linux better suited to powerful computers with numerous processors, a market dominated today by servers running versions of the Unix operating system on which Linux is based. This version will be the first major change since 2.4.0 was released in January 2001. From its lowly roots as a student project Linus Torvalds began 12 years ago, the software has matured to become a major competitor to Microsoft and a key part of most computing companies' plans. As expected , Linux leader and founder Torvalds announced the new kernel in a note to the kernel mailing list, expressing some satisfaction that most problems had been stamped out before the final update was delivered. "It's not the totally empty patch I was hoping for, but judging by the bugs I worked on personally, things are looking pretty good," Torvalds said.

26. Linux 2.6.0 Heart Transplant Imminent | CNET News.com Linux 2.6.0 heart transplant imminent Top programmers are set to release a major update to Linux, version 2.6.0, a change that s expected to help carry the http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5127627.html

CNET News.com CNET tech sites: Price comparisons Product reviews Tech news Downloads ... E-mail alerts! Sign up now by company topic , or keyword Get News around the Web (beta) Linux 2.6.0 heart transplant imminent Last modified: December 17, 2003, 5:25 PM PST By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Top programmers hope to release on Wednesday a major update to Linux, version 2.6.0, a change that's expected to help carry the open-source operating system into new markets. The new version of the core, or kernel, of Linux has several changes that make Linux better suited to powerful computers with numerous processors, a market dominated today by servers running versions of the Unix operating system on which Linux is based. The new version will be the first major change since 2.4.0 was released in January 2001. From its lowly roots as a student project Linus Torvalds began 12 years ago, the software has matured to become a major competitor to Microsoft and a key part of most computing companies' plans. Get Up to Speed on...

27. Heart Transplant Heart, HeartLung, and Lung Transplant Program. Stanford has been recognized as the pioneering center for heart transplants. Pre-heart transplant Coordinator. http://cardiology.stanford.edu/Programs_CVMED/transpla.htm

We are accepting applications for two heart failure/transplant fellows each academic year and will soon be advertising for the positions for the 2002-2003 academic year. Heart, Heart-Lung, and Lung Transplant Program Stanford has been recognized as the pioneering center for heart transplants. Dr. Norman Shumway and his colleagues developed the experimental basis for transplants in their early work, which laid the groundwork for the first adult heart transplant in the United States at Stanford in January of 1968. Since then, many innovations have originated with the Stanford program, which continues to advance new techniques in surgery. The Stanford team has conducted more than 1000 heart transplants. In 1981, the first successful transplantation of the lung was performed at Stanford by Dr. Bruce Reitz and his colleagues as a heart-lung transplant. This was made possible by the use of the immunosuppressive drug, cyclosporine, and previous laboratory research performed at Stanford. The Stanford team is the longest continually active team performing lung transplantation, and new advances continue to be made in our research laboratories. At Stanford, more than 150 patients have received a heart-lung transplant, and recently, more than 120 patients have received either a single lung or double lung transplant. Innovations, which have been introduced in the transplant field from Stanford, have included:

28. Transplant Primer: Heart Transplant Transplant Primer heart transplant. heart transplant. Important! Doctors may recommend a heart transplant to treat heart failure. http://www.ustransplant.org/primer/heart.html

var page = "m_resources" Home Who We Are What We Do About Transplants ... Site Map Transplant Primer: Heart Transplant Section 1: Introduction to Transplantation Section 4: Liver Transplant Section 2: Heart Transplant Section 5: Lung Transplant Section 3: Kidney Transplant Section 6: Pancreas Transplant Heart Transplant Important! Nothing on this page is medical advice. If you need a transplant, please seek the advice and care of qualified transplant physicians. This is a general source of information and does not represent a medical opinion or recommendation. Doctors may recommend a heart transplant to treat heart failure. Failure may be due to disease or injury, and the two most common categories of disease are coronary artery disease and cardiomyopathy. The person who needs the transplant is evaluated by a heart transplant team and if they are found to be suitable, his or her name is placed on the waitlist. When a donated heart becomes available, it is surgically removed from the donor and transplanted into the patient. Heart transplantation is very successful 85% of patients who receive a heart transplant are alive one year later. Among 4,409 patients who underwent heart transplants in 1997 and 1998, about 79% survived for at least three years afterwards.

29. Temple University: Heart Failure & Transplant Program: Waiting SITE MAP. TUH HOME. Waiting on the heart transplant Waiting List. If you are listed as a Status II, you will receive a beeper in about six to eight weeks. http://www.temple.edu/heartfailure/html/waiting.html

To reach staff, make an appointment, get a referral. Latest information about the program and relevant updates Clinical trials and studies currently underway. Our resources will direct you to related sites. Waiting on the Heart Transplant Waiting List We will follow your heart condition in our outpatient clinic until the Cardiologist determines that you are not well enough to wait at home. At that time, we will admit you to the hospital and update your status to Status I awaiting heart transplantation. If you are listed as a either a Status 1A or 1B patient from the beginning, you will need to wait for your heart transplant in the hospital at Temple unless you have a mechanical assist device such as an LVAD supporting you. Your doctors have determined that you are too sick to go home and wait. Most patients will be on intravenous infusions on a continuous basis while you wait and your heart will be monitored by a portable monitor pack twenty-four hours a day. The waiting period as a Status I patient will not be as long as a Status II patient as the Status I patient is the priority. The typical waiting period as a Status 1A and 1B can be as short as a few days or as long as several months. Being listed does not guarantee continued listing at the original status. During the course of your care unfortunate events and circumstances can arise. These circumstances may change your suitability as a transplant candidate and the transplant team might decide to remove a candidate from the list on a temporary basis or permanently. You will be informed of any changes of your listing status.

30. NOVA Online | Electric Heart This is the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades. Includes heart facts, an overview of a heart transplant, and artificial heart technology. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/

Welcome to the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Electric Heart," originally broadcast on December 21, 1999. The program tells the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades. Here's what you'll find online: Map of the Human Heart Put your finger on the pulse of how the human heart works with an automatically changing color graphic of a heart in cross-section. Amazing Heart Facts Did you know that, on any given day, your heart beats roughly 100,000 times and your blood travels about 12,000 miles as it circulates throughout your body? Find more dazzling details here. The Artificial Human Merely a good idea for a TV show a quarter century ago, the $6 Million Man - or woman - could practically exist today, with everything from hips of steel to laboratory-grown skin regularly replacing what nature originally provided. Meet our fake friend. Pioneering Surgeon: O. H. Frazier O. H. Frazier has done more heart transplants than anyone else alive, well over 700. He also stands at the forefront of researchers striving to create a viable total artificial heart. Here he talks about his work, his thoughts, and his hopes. Operation: Heart Transplant (Hot Science) Don your surgical mask and try your hand as a heart-transplant surgeon metaphorically speaking in this simplified online procedure.

31. Heart Transplant Mayo Clinic provides information on heart transplants. Mayo Clinic Medical Services heart transplant. heart transplant at Mayo Clinic. http://www.mayoclinic.org/hearttransplant/

Home About Mayo Clinic Contact Us Mayo Clinic Locations: Arizona Florida Minnesota Mayo Clinic ... Medical Services Heart Transplant Heart Transplant Description Volumes and Statistics Treatment in Jacksonville Treatment in Rochester ... Medical Services Heart Transplant at Mayo Clinic Eric Peterson is not the average college guy ... and he has the scars from a heart transplant to prove it. Read more. Medical Edge TV Stories See 90-second stories on: Newborn Heart Transplant April 2003 Ventricular-Assist Device February 2003 Sites will open in a new window. Innovative Program Offered by Mayo Clinic's Heart Transplant Center Amyloid heart disease Transplantation of newborns and infants Transplantation of children and adults with complex congenital heart disease Transplantation for Pulmonary Hypertension ... LVADs as bridge or destination Strategies to prevent transplant-related vasculopathy Mayo Clinic is strongly committed to heart and lung (cardiothoracic) transplantation. Supported by a tradition of excellence in cardiology and cardiac surgery, the program encompasses heart, heart-lung, and lung transplantation, as well as ventricular assist devices for infants, children and adults. Mayo Clinic's multidisciplinary team approach to medicine is ideally suited to the complex problems presented by heart transplant patients. The heart transplantation program brings together the collective expertise of specialists with extensive experience in transplant surgery and medicine.

32. Loma Linda University International Heart Institute Provides information from heart transplants to hearthealthy recipes. http://www.llu.edu/ihi/

Event - June 25, 2004 Commitment to Excellence in Heart Failure (PDF 572K) About Loma Linda International Heart Institute Opened in 1987, Loma Linda International Heart Institute serves as the cardiac service line of Loma Linda University Medical Center. Cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, nurses, and other clinicians are committed to work as an integrated cardiac specialty team to provide compassionate patient-centered care. The Heart Institute offers full cardiac services from diagnostic procedures such as echocardiograms and cardiac stress tests to cardiac surgery and transplantation. University Search Employment Services ... Research Revised May 21, 2004 Send comments and questions to webmaster@univ.llu.edu URL: http://www.llu.edu/ Privacy information

33. Redirect Page For "/hearttransplant-rst/" heart transplant at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Chuck Fisher. Chuck Fisher continues to share his time and talents, thanks to a heart transplant at Mayo Clinic. http://www.mayoclinic.org/hearttransplant-rst/

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34. Organ Transplant - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia As the recipient s native heart is usually healthy, this can then itself be transplanted into someone needing a heart transplant; this is called a domino http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transplant

Organ transplant From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Transplant An organ transplant is the transplantation of an organ (or part of one) from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor. Donors can be living , or cadaveric (dead). Blood transfusion and bone marrow transplants are special cases of a transplant where the transplanted part of the body is renewable; in other cases, the living organ donor either has another of the same organ (such as lungs or kidneys ) or can donate part of an organ (such as split- liver , segmental pancreas and small intestine transplants). Apart from brain-stem dead donors, who have formed the majority of cadaveric donors for the last twenty years, there is increasing use of non-heart beating donors to increase the potential pool of donors as demand for transplants continues to grow. Organs and tissues that can currently be transplanted include: Liver Kidney Pancreas Pancreatic islet cells ... Skin (a skin graft Blood vessels Bone The heart and lungs are sometimes transplanted together, in a

35. CNN.com - Patient Critical After Artificial Heart Transplant - May 6, 2004 Health. Patient critical after artificial heart transplant. http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/06/artificial.heart.ap/

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Patient critical after artificial heart transplant HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library Heart and blood LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) A self-contained artificial heart was implanted in a patient this week at a Kentucky hospital as part of an ongoing clinical trial by the device's manufacturer. The patient, who was not identified, was in critical but stable condition after Monday's seven-hour procedure, a Jewish Hospital spokeswoman said. The patient is the 13th recipient of the experimental AbioCor pump, made by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts. It was the sixth implant performed at the hospital by Drs. Laman Gray and Rob Dowling and the first since January 2003. The latest recipient is one of two AbioCor patients currently living with the pump. The other underwent surgery in February at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston and is reported in stable condition. The softball-sized AbioCor is powered by batteries and made of plastic and titanium. It has no wires or tubes sticking through the skin, unlike earlier mechanical hearts that were attached to machinery outside the body.

36. CNN.com - Heart Transplant Pioneer Dies - September 2, 2001 heart transplant pioneer dies. NICOSIA, Cyprus (CNN) heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christiaan Barnard died Sunday. Barnard, 78, died http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/09/02/barnard.death/

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International ... askCNN EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe set your edition Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Heart transplant pioneer dies NICOSIA, Cyprus (CNN) Heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christiaan Barnard died Sunday. Barnard, 78, died in his hotel room in the southwest coastal town of Paphos, said Dr. Maro Svana, a spokeswoman for Paphos General Hospital. He was taken from the hotel in an ambulance to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1 a.m. (6 p.m. Saturday EDT), she said. An autopsy will be performed Monday. In a five-hour operation at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1967, Barnard replaced the diseased heart of Louis Washkansky with that of a woman in her mid-20s who had died in a car accident. Washkansky died 18 days later of double pneumonia, the result of his suppressed immune system. But the surgery represented a milestone, and propelled the South Africa surgeon, then 45, to acclaim. "On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known," he recalled years later to a documentary producer. "On Monday, I was world renowned."

37. Welcome To Papworth Hospital World famous heart transplant hospital. Information about the organisation and their activities, research, fundraising, recruitment and contacts. http://www.papworthpeople.com/

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38. Discovery Health Heart Transplant A heart transplant is performed to treat heart failure due to disease or injury. A search, heart transplant. By Robert Merion, MD. A http://health.discovery.com/diseasesandcond/encyclopedia/863.html

39. Uyless King Personal Homepage of Tony King, information on heart transplant, scuba, amateur radio, located in Union City, Georgia. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1946/

Near and Dear to MY Heart "Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course." Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997) From his 1953 book, "The Silent World" Click Here To Continue Created June 5, 1996 Updated March 3, 2003

40. Heart And Heart/Lung Transplants In the two decades since the performance of the first human heart transplant in December 1967, the procedure has changed from an experimental operation to an http://www.unav.es/emp/hrtlung.html

Heart and heart/lung transplants Read the following National Institutes of Health information sheet on heart and heart/lung transplants and answer the questions. Remember that this is information for the general public so the language used is not very "technical". Facts About Heart and Heart/Lung Transplants In the two decades since the performance of the first human heart transplant in December 1967, the procedure has changed from an experimental operation to an established an experimental operation to an established treatment for advanced heart disease. Approximately 1,600 heart transplants are performed each year in the United States. Since 1981, combined heart and lung transplants have been used to treat patients with conditions that severely damage both these organs. As of 1990, about 800 people worldwide have received heart/lung transplants. In 1983, a major barrier to the success of transplantation- rejection of the donor organ by the patient-was overcome . The drug cyclosporine was introduced to suppress rejection of a donor heart or heart/lung by the patient's body. Cyclosporine and other medications to control rejection have significantly improved the survival of transplant patients. About 80 percent of heart transplant patients survive 1 year or more. About 60 percent of heart/lung transplants live at least 1 year after surgery. Research is

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