Extractions: *Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA; New York City Department of Health, New York, New York, USA; Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; §New York Blood Center, New York, New York, USA; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and #Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York, USA Suggested citation for this article: Lux JZ, Weiss D, Linden JV, Kessler D, Herwaldt BL, Wong SJ, et al. Transfusion-associated babesiosis after heart transplant. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 2003 Jan [ date cited ];8. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no1/02-0149.htm
Patient And Family Experiences heart transplant Experiences. My Life as Bob Fowler's heart transplantexperience; Back to Work ; Forever Young At Heart ; A Gift from http://www.transweb.org/people/recips/heart.htm
Extractions: "My Life as a Heart Child" (Robert Plotnek's transplant experience) Iris Epstein's Transplant Story "A Heart of Flesh" (in The Wesleyan Way) (at the DelCimmuto family site) Diane Hebert's heart-lung transplant story (at the Diane Hebert Foundation site) "Dying for Life" online book by John Landers Pat Majeski's heart transplant ... "Keep Hope Alive" by a teenager (heart-kidney recipient) Just Another Transplant Story "Joshua Lentin: Child Heart Recipient With a Special Bond" (at Stadtlander's web site) Bob Fowler's heart transplant experience "Back to Work" "Forever Young At Heart" A Gift from the Heart ...A Sharing of One Man's Heart Transplant Experience ...an online version of Jim Gleason's book about his transplant (including "Some Days are Diamonds") with many articles on subjects like motivation, fear, nutrition, support from family and friends, a reading list, etc... "Green Pastures" , about Bob Brown (in the Evansville Courier) "A Change of Heart,"
Tampa General Hospital - Tampa, FLorida, USA A level one trauma facility and the heart transplant center for central Florida. Patient and family information, volunteer opportunities. http://tgh.org/
Heart Transplant heart transplant. Definition Indications A heart transplant may berecommended for Heart failure caused by coronary artery disease; http://www.pennhealth.com/ency/article/003003.htm
Extractions: Description: Heart transplants are the fourth most common (corneas, kidneys and liver are the most common) transplant operations in the U.S. (over 2,200 cases per year). A healthy heart is obtained from a donor who has suffered brain death but remains on life-support. The healthy heart is transported in a special solution that preserves the organ. While the patient is deep asleep and pain-free (general anesthesia), an incision is made through the breast bone (sternum). The patient's blood is re-routed through tubes to a heart-lung bypass machine to keep the blood oxygen-rich and circulating. The patient's diseased heart is removed and the donor heart is stitched in place.
Heart Transplant heart transplant. Normal Anatomy heart transplant. The heart is located in the chestcavity, or thorax. It pumps blood from the lungs to the rest of the body. http://www.besthealth.com/surgery/Hearttransplant_1.html
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Heart Transplant Information Includes a heart transplant operation, heart biopsy, tests and personal accounts. http://www.superscreens.co.uk
Heart Transplant heart transplant Who is a candidate for a heart transplant? heart transplantationis a lastresort option for people with heart failure. http://www.iaod.org/understanding-organ-donation-hearttransplant.htm
Extractions: Join Remove UNDERSTANDING DONATION HEART TRANSPLANT: Who is a candidate for a heart transplant? Heart transplantation is a last-resort option for people with heart failure. To be considered for a heart transplant, a person's heart must be unresponsive to other forms of treatment and all other vital organs must be in excellent health. How is heart transplantation done? The surgery must be performed immediately after a suitable donor heart becomes available. The recipient is placed on a heart-lung machine that takes over the functions of the heart and lungs so the diseased heart can be removed and replaced with the new heart. Once the blood vessels are reconnected, the heart is ready to function.
Second Chances: Receiving The Gift Of Life Inspirational stories about donor families and liver, kidney, and heart transplant recipients. Detailed medical information about the heart transplant surgery itself and also the process for getting listed for a heart transplant. http://home.fuse.net/secondchances
Extractions: Almost 12 years ago I received the gift of life, a heart transplant. My donor, Brandon, was only 15, riding his bike home when he was tragically hit and killed by a car. That's him on the cover in his football uniform. During my illness and wait for an organ, I lost faith in God but He never gave up on me. My accomplishments and zeal for life since my transplant completing graduate school, getting married, writing this book, all while working full-time as public affairs manager for LifeCenter, the local organ recovery agency in Cincinnati. Other Transplant Recipient Friends Read about others who have received heart, liver, kidney, and kidney/pancreas transplants as well as a young burn patient who received donated skin. People like Patty Britton, a young woman who has survived 3 liver transplants. Who, in an ironic turn of events, also became a donor mother when her newborn baby Christopher lost his fight for life. A physician at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Childrens Hospital of Cincinnati, Dr. Ed Lowe, became a patient when he needed a heart transplant. Paul Hackman, though diabetes had robbed him of his sight and one leg, how he triumphed to carry the Olympic torch through Cincinnati and donate his time to lecture at high schools about organ and tissue donation.
Heart Transplant Programs multidisciplinary approach combines the expertise of transplant surgeons, pulmonologists internationallyrecognized research in congestive heart failure, the http://www.nebraskatransplant.org/heart/
Extractions: The cardiac transplant program joined the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Health System tradition of excellence in 1994. Our transplant specialists have a history of treating critically ill children and adults who require urgent care and transplantation. Our multidisciplinary approach combines the expertise of transplant surgeons, pulmonologists, immunologists, infectious disease physicians, adult and pediatric cardiologists, social workers and psychologists, as well as several nurse coordinators. This program was preceded and is now complemented by nationally and internationally recognized research in congestive heart failure, the neuro-regulation of the cardiovascular system, viral cardiomyopathy and the molecular biology of altered cardiac function. Transplant Programs
Holub, Miroslav Heart Transplant Literature Annotations. Holub, Miroslav heart transplant. Genre, Poem. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/holub1069-des
Extractions: Heart Transplant Genre Poem Keywords Heart Disease Medical Advances Surgery Technology Summary In typically terse poetic structure, utilizing fresh new images, Holub visualizes removal and replacement of a human heart during a transplant procedure. He describes the throb of the extracorporeal circulation mechanics as an "inaudible New World Symphony" as he elevates the imagery of the hole in the chest where once resided the "king of Blood" transiently into the cosmos. With the arrival of the "new heart," the imagery again becomes earth bound: the structure is sewn in place, the beats resume and the "curves jump like / synthetic sheep" as the EKG rhythm resumes. Commentary In this poem, Holub stays much closer to a description of an actual event than he does in his more dramatically metaphorical pieces. The differences are twofold: the absolute technical wonderment of the achievement is so understated as to be most effective; and the images used, though refreshing, are crystal clear. For example, watch the QRS complex on an EKG screen and you will see sheep jumping in lines and in perfect rhythmas an emblem of the victory of both "life and spirit."
Michigan Girl Waits For Heart Transplant, Aided By Tiny New Pump Michigan girl waits for heart transplant, aided by tiny new pump. Friday, February14, 2003. She currently is on a waiting list for a heart transplant. http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm13124_20030214.htm
Extractions: FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER An 11-year-old Michigan girl has become the first American children to receive a miniature fully implantable heart pump, a device increasingly used as a bridge to keep patients alive while awaiting heart transplants. The girl, whose family has asked to remain anonymous, is in good health after the January 30 procedure at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. She celebrated her 11th birthday three days after the six-hour operation. She currently is on a waiting list for a heart transplant. Known as the DeBakey VAD, after the famed Texas heart transplant surgeon Michael DeBakey, the unit is currently undergoing clinical studies. It is made by MicroMed Technology, a Houston company. (For details, see www.micromedtech.com). Heart pumps, also known as ventricular assist devices (VAD), are among the advances in medicine giving greater hope to people needing heart transplants. Someday, improvements in the device may help patients avoid transplants completely, doctors say. Eighteen months ago, a similar procedure was performed on a 10-year-old child at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, using a partially-implantable pump. She lived with the device for 53 days before getting a heart transplant. She's now back in school, playing soccer, hockey and basketball, according to Dr. Robert Ross, a Children's Hospital pediatric cardiologist and the girl's doctor.The DeBakey device is implanted completely in the chest and attached to the heart, to help pump blood. It is a tiny 1-by-3 inch device that weighs 4 ounces. It's 1/10 of the size of adult devices, making it a good device for pediatric patients, U-M surgeons said. The UM team was led by Dr. Eric Devaney, pediatric cardiac surgeon.
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Heart Transplantation, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center Return to Top. How a heart transplant is performed Once a patient has beenaccepted for transplantation they are placed on a nationwide list. http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/Health_Topics/heart-encyclopedia/treat/surg/t
Extractions: Heart Center Encyclopedia Introduction Cardiac Anomalies / Congenital Heart Defects Heart Diseases ... Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Heart Transplantation Open-Heart Surgery Palliative Care / Procedures Respiratory Care Interventional Cardiac Catheterization ... Glossary Information for Families of Pediatric Patients and Adults Explanation Indications The Procedure Risks and Complications ... Likelihood of Success What is cardiac transplantation? Heart transplantation is used as a last resort for people with end-stage heart disease who have no other surgical or medical therapy available. Generally, people listed for heart transplantation have a life expectancy of less than one year, and often much less. In addition, candidates often have significant limitations of their activity and lifestyle prior to transplantation. The goal of heart transplantation is to return the patient to as functional a state as possible with the least amount of limitations and best quality of life.
Chucky Gets Lucky The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967 by the lateSouth African surgeon Christian Barnard. But transplants remain http://whyfiles.org/142heart_transplant/
Extractions: 1. Chucky gets lucky 2. On bypass 3. New heart pumping 4. Recovery ... 5. The long run Chuck Reynolds waited more than three patient months for a heart transplant. A nurse himself, he was notorious for kidding the staff, but the wait was long and worrisome. *Photojournalism by David Tenenbaum (Unless noted otherwise, all photos, this feature, courtesy David Tenenbaum). Huge and misshapen, this heart is about to get replaced. That electronic gadget is a pacemaker and the wires connecting to the old heart. Beating death POSTED 18 OCT 2001 On Sept. 14, the National Day of Remembrance for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, Chucky finally got lucky. James (Chuck) Reynolds, 54, had been waiting in the hospital for three and one-half months for a heart. In other words, he was waiting for a generous stranger to die. A stranger with the correct blood type and a heart suited to Reynolds's large chest. Otherwise, Thomas Starkey, his heart surgeon at University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital, had told him he would die of heart failure. In fact, Reynolds was already rather far along in the process of retiring from life. A registered nurse from the hills of southwest Wisconsin, his failing heart prevented him from working, even caring for his three young boys.
First Heart Transplant At HSC - The Scalpel - Spring 1999 First heart transplant at HSC Dr. Dario Del Rizzo Dr. Bill LindsaySection of Cardiac Surgery. On September 24, 1998, a patient http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/surgery/scalpel/spring1999/hear
Heart Transplantation heart transplant Program. In 2001, the University of Michigan heart transplantProgram performed 39 heart transplant operations in the state. http://www.um-cardiac-surgery.org/01g_patients.htm
Extractions: www.med.umich.edu Heart Transplant Program The University of Michigan Heart Transplant Program is the largest heart transplant program in the State of Michigan and performs approximately 40 heart transplant operations yearly in children and adults. In 2001, the University of Michigan Heart Transplant Program performed 39 heart transplant operations in the state. In 2002, University of Michigan physicians performed their 500th heart transplant operation and have extensive experience in the care and management of patients with heart transplants, as well as offering all the latest medical therapies for heart transplant patients. Ventricular assist devices and artificial heart replacements are available for appropriately selected patients who usually require such support while awaiting a suitable donor heart. Pediatric Congenital Heart Center Adult Cardiovascular Center patient/visitor info UMHS home ... contact us
Extractions: Search Make Pittsburgh.com Your Homepage Contact the Station Sign up for E-News Local Experts ... Health Email This Story Print This Story The first lung and heart transplant program in the state of West Virginia is under development at WVU. Dr. Timothy Hall, the new surgical director of the university's heart institute, says the program would prevent transplant patients from having to travel out of state. About six West Virginia heart patients and 10 lung patients travel to Ohio, Pittsburgh or Maryland for treatment.
MP21-08: First Heart Transplant In New Medical Centre First heart transplant in new Medical Centre. Heart to heart ViceChancellorProf Njabulo Ndebele (centre) visits heart transplant http://www.uct.ac.za/general/monpaper/2002no08/index1.htm
Extractions: Tel: (021) 650-3757 Fax: (021) 650-3780 CONTENTS First heart transplant in new Medical Centre The DVC candidates on their attributes, qualities and sources of inspiration Vox populi: Staff comments on qualities they would like to see in DVCs SACM's new Steinway makes its debut ... Today's Weather Return to: UCT home page First heart transplant in new Medical Centre Heart to heart: Vice-Chancellor Prof Njabulo Ndebele (centre) visits heart transplant recipient Loganathan Naidu 12 hours after his heart transplant in the new UCT Medical Centre. Naidu's wife, Mercia, is on the left. A FATHER of two who was admitted to hospital eight times last year in heart failure, received a new lease of life when he underwent a heart transplant in the new UCT Medical Centre (UCTMC) last Monday. The operation marked the first heart transplant to be done in UCTMC since the official opening on February 15, 2002. Loganathan Roy Naidu from Port Elizabeth was very ill when he was brought to Cape Town two months ago to await a donor heart. He had been suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition where the heart muscle loses its elasticity and becomes significantly enlarged. This was diagnosed seven years ago but last year his heart function deteriorated further.
Revisit The First Ever Heart Transplant Revisit the first ever heart transplant WHY not take a step back intime and join the heart transplant team who performed the first http://www.uct.ac.za/general/monpaper/2001no09/heart.htm
Extractions: heart transplant W HY not take a step back in time and join the heart transplant team who performed the first-ever human heart transplant, led by Professor Chris Barnard, almost 34 years ago? Yes, you too can revisit the momentous event of December 3, 1967, which took place at Groote Schuur Hospital and captured the imagination of the world. The remarkable feat has been commemorated by the establishment of a museum on the actual theatre site where the operation took place at the Charles Saint Theatre Suite. Return to Monday Paper Contents Monday Paper is published by the
