Heart Transplant Research
New artificial heart almost ready for human trials
October 28, 2008
Expert & Community Posts
Keeping Your Heart Beating Healthily
By Heather Reese , Health Expert...physically. In severe cases, this condition may require a heart transplant, but for most people... Read more »
National Disease Research Interchange
By Kim Benjet , Health Expert...be medical waste, but instead can be donated for research purposes. I had no idea until... Read more »
Health Guide
Scoliosis: Highlights
...tracked children who had received heart, kidney, or liver transplants. Scoliosis developed in 52% of heart transplant recipients, 18% of kidney recipients, and 14% of liver recipients. The... Read more »Congestive Heart Failure: Surgery and Recovery
...Batista procedure, after its inventor) may allow some patients with dilated cardiomyopathy to avoid a heart transplant.The procedure involves the following:The surgeon first performs... Read more »Treatment for Congestive Heart Failure
...patients.Treatment for Stage DTreatment includes appropriate measures used for Stages A, B, and C plus:Heart transplantation referral for appropriate patients.Left-ventricular assist devices... Read more »Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers: Risk Factors
...medical conditions such as AIDS are also at risk. (Melanoma has also developed in patients who received heart transplants from donors who had the disease.) Immune-suppressing drugs used to treat... Read more »Medications for Congestive Heart Failure
...Tacrolimus (Prograf) was approved in 2006 to help prevent organ rejection in patients who have received a heart transplant. The drug suppresses the immune system. Patients who receive this drug... Read more »Images
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