Wikio - Heart transplants

Boy, 20 Mos., Has Two Heart Transplants in Four Days (Fox News)

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:23:15 GMT

The Mayo Clinic performed two heart transplants in one child within four days - a first for the hospital.

Tot survives two heart transplants (DL-Online : Detroit Lakes)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Shane Giesen thought he had received the perfect gift when his 20-month-old son, Kobe, was given the new heart he desperately needed to survive on Father's Day. Advertisement: Detroit Lakes Tribune Two months FREE with one year subscription! Sign up for Autopay and receive two months free on your one year subscription! Local delivery only. Call 847-3151 and subscribe today!

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Can Technology Diminish Reliance on Heart Transplants? (Red Orbit )

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:00:34 GMT

Growing risk factors in an ageing population have driven the rising prevalence of heart failure. With no new drug therapies, and existing pharmacological strategies failing to compensate for a weakening heart, other solutions must be found.

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Heart transplants to become obsolete? (A Hearty Life)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:20:10 GMT

Heart transplants save the lives of more than 2,100 Americans every year. But many more patients are still waiting for a new heart to become available, and hundreds will die without ever getting a second chance at life. With that being said researchers are asking the question, “will heart transplants become a thing of the past'” [...]

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Richard Lower (Red Orbit )

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:00:28 GMT

Dr. Richard Lower earned acclaim for his pioneering work regarding heart transplants -- first at Stanford University, then at the Medical College of Virginia. The entire community benefited from his professional skills as a physician and from his personal generosity.

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Heart LVAD ... Better and Better ! (Underdog)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:38:00 GMT

June 02, 2008 Media contact: Kara GavinE-mail: kegavin@umich.edu Phone: 734-764-2220 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOM5s3Apo4 Could Heart Transplants become a thing of the past ? Advanced heart-assisting devices are getting better and better, though donated hearts are still the gold standard, U-M expert says ; Listen to the podcast Meet the expert: Francis Pagani, M.D.,...

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Could Heart Transplants Become a Thing of the Past? (Newswise)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:18:28 GMT

Heart transplants save the lives of more than 2,100 Americans every year. But many more patients are still waiting for a new heart to become available, and hundreds will die without ever getting a second chance at life. Could technology be the solution - whether temporary, or permanent - for many of these people?

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Sisters, 8 and 6, both await heart transplants (The Eagle)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:05:00 GMT

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press BOYD -- Natalie Van Noy is still trying to digest the news that both of her active, seemingly healthy daughters ...

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2 sisters face grim future without heart transplants (Houston Chronicle)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:09:29 GMT

Natalie Van Noy is still trying to digest the news that both of her active, seemingly healthy daughters ages 6 and 8 have deadly heart conditions and the only treatment is transplants.

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A replacement for heart transplants? (Raw Story)

Sat, 17 May 2008 22:15:27 GMT

Heart attack patients waiting for a transplant are to undergo a revolutionary new therapy which should see them avoid having to undergo the operation altogether...

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Girl Recovers From Second Heart Transplant in 6 Years (Fox News)

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:47:27 GMT

Leanne Nicholson has had two heart transplants in six years.

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'Elephant Run' seeks to remember (The Business First of Buffalo)

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:46:18 GMT

An elephant never forgets, and neither does attorney John Feroleto, who recalled a connection between his nephew, Buffalo Common Council member Michael LoCurto, and Marcena Lozano, both Buffalo residents who received heart transplants.

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HeartMate II pump approved by FDA (A Hearty Life)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:09:10 GMT

Thoratec Corp. has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to use its HeartMate II heart pump to help advanced-stage heart failure patients survive while awaiting heart transplants. Until now some heart transplant recipients were not able to receive pumps due to size and gender. The hopes for the new pump is it's ease of [...]

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AGH approved for heart assist device (Today's Tribune-Review)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:46:53 GMT

Allegheny General Hospital announced today it is among the first hospitals in the country to receive federal approval to implant ventricular assist devices in patients who are poor candidates for heart transplants.

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Mayo Clinic honored for 100% bridge-to-transplant for artificial hearts (Mayo Clinic)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:44:33 GMT

Mayo Clinic is among two national medical institutions honored because 100 percent of its patients who received the artificial heart were "bridged" to human heart transplants.

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Thoratec gets FDA approval for new heart pump (The East Bay Business Times)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:42:53 GMT

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Orlando Regional, Florida Hospital vie for heart transplant program (The Orlando Business Journal)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:36:16 GMT

Orlando Regional Healthcare and Florida Hospital both announced plans this week to seek state permission to perform heart transplants.

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Good for MCG (Peach Pundit)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:57:05 GMT

Heart transplants are back. Now if they could just do brain transplants we could start queuing up legislators.

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Collaborative effort celebrates 1,000 Utah heart transplants (Deseret Morning News)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:15:12 GMT

The success of Utah's four-hospital collaborative heart transplant program stretches from Damon Draheim, who got a second chance at life three weeks ago at Intermountain Medical Center, back 23 years to Tony Shepard, whose fresh start began March 8, 1985, at University Hospital.

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Organs may have their own Consciousness (End Times Prophecy News)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:22:00 GMT

The progress of medical science in the past 30 years has been so rapid that yesterday's miracles are tomorrow's commonplace procedures. So it has proved with heart transplants, which have become almost routine in hospitals around the world. Yet every once in a while a story emerges which should cause us all to sit up and take note that there is nothing "routine" or "commonplace"...

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