Heart Transplant Procedure
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Islet-Cell Transplantation
Researchers are investigating islet-cell transplantation as a way to help patients to come off insulin or reduce their use of it. Most research in recent years has focused on an islet-transplantation procedure called the Edmonton protocol.
This procedure has only been used in clinical trials, but it has helped some patients with severe type 1 diabetes to become free of insulin injections. However, many of these insulin-independent patients...
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Heart transplant
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
A heart transplant is surgery to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart.Alternative NamesCardiac transplant;... Read more »
Gender Matters in Heart Transplants
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- For the more than 2,000 patients who undergo heart transplants each year, the risk of survival is better if they receive a... Read more »
Heart Transplant Breakthrough
NEW YORK (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- "I swim on a regular basis at my local YMCA. I play tennis. I play golf ... Not very well." Candace Moose moves... Read more »
Liver transplant
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Liver transplant is surgery to replace a diseased liver with a healthy liver.Alternative NamesHepatic transplant; Transplant - liverDescriptionThe... Read more »
Lung transplant
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Lung transplant is surgery to replace one or both diseased lungs with healthy lungs from a human donor.Alternative NamesSolid organ transplant -... Read more »
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