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Heart transplantation in the pediatric age-group and for end-stage congential heart defects
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An article by the Mayo Cardiothoracic Transplant Team in this issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings (pages 923 to 928) suggests that cardiac transplantation in patients with end-stage congenital heart defects can be a viable therapeutic option. The surgical procedures must be well planned and carefully executed.
Historical Perspective
A few weeks after the first clinical heart transplantation in an adult, a 16-day-old neonate with tricuspid atresia underwent heart transplantation. In 1969, Cooley' performed a heart transplantation in a 2-month-old infant with an atrioventricular canal ...
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Renography before heart transplantation in patients with cardiomyopathy
; ...renography before heart transplantation in patients with CM who have...and 1995. All patients were expecting heart transplantation and were waiting...within this study. Patients who underwent heart transplantation began immunosuppressive...
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Technologies of heart transplantation: it is now 40 years since the world's first heart transplant was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. It is interesting to assess just how far heart transplantation has come since then.(material matters column)
; ...and fall of heart transplantation I am writing...technically open for heart transplantation to make its...expected that heart transplantation would have a...heart transplant patients are 85-90% survival...progress of heart transplantation. Average ...
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Scientists search for alternatives to transplant patients with failing hearts
; An estimated 40,000 patients could benefit from heart transplantation, but only about 2400 operations...been used in about 100 patients in Europe, Canada, and...a temporary bridge to heart transplantation, scientists and engineers...
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Heart patients beam in on laser treatment
; ...has helped transform the lives of almost 50 patients in Scotland who were suffering life- threatening...results have been staggering. A lot of the patients couldn't even brush their teeth in the morning...for heart transplants in some severely ill patients. With up to half of transplant ...
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Caring for children awaiting heart transplantation: psychosocial implications.
; Heart transplantation has become an increasingly...treatment option for patients with end-stage heart disease. According...International Society for Heart Transplantation (ISHT) registry...pediatric transplant patients and their families...
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Pediatric heart transplantation across ABO blood type barriers: a case study
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In my shoes: children's quality of life after heart transplantation
; Background- Although heart transplantation has been offered for...life for children after heart transplantation. (Progress in Transplantation...life following pediatric heart transplantation 2. Identify the themes...
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Results of conventionally fractionated radiotherapy in supratentorial malignant glioma patients
; Sixty patients with the diagnosis of supratentorial...1997, were retrospectively analyzed. The patients had a median age of 47 years and a median...and glioblastoma multiforme in 39 (65%) patients. Median survival was 13 months for all...
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Patients dissatisfied at two-tier GP funding
; Patients of fundholding GPs are still getting to hospital faster...treatment, a new survey says. But the report says fundholders' patients are less satisfied than non- fundholders' with some of...There are 2,600 fundholding GPs covering 40 per cent of patients in England and Wales. They have budgets and buy ...
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Ten years of cardiothoracic transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center and ten years of heart transplantation at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center.
; ...first contact with the father of heart transplantation (1), Dr. Richard R. Lower, took...spring of 1984 to come and start the heart transplantation program, I felt that my previous...codirector should be given privileges in heart transplantation assisted by other staff cardiac...
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