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	Your Guide to Heart Transplantation
		Ventricular dysfunction is often present as a result of the adverse effects of brain death on the heart; and the ischemic period during storage and transplant.
		Rejection of organ transplants is a complex immunologic phenomenon that involves cell-mediated and antibody-mediated responses, both of which are targeted on the human lymphocytes antigens in the graft.
		Most of the patients with this disease after heart transplantation fail to experience typical angina (chest pain); this may be related to the likelihood that the heart allograft (donor heart) denervated permanently.
	www.heart-transplant.org /guide (1580 words)

	Heart Transplant Overview
		Heart transplant surgery is the replacement of a patient's diseased heart with a donor heart after all other treatments have failed.
		Transplantation is considered when the heart is failing and does not respond to other therapies, but health is otherwise good.
		Because the nerves leading to the heart are cut during the operation, the transplanted heart beats slower than the normal heart.
	www.cpmc.org /advanced/heart/patients/topics/transplant.html (1734 words)

	Heart Transplantation Treatment
		A heart transplant procedure is considered when heart failure is so severe that it does not respond to all other therapies, but the person's health is otherwise good.
		Donors for heart transplants are individuals who may have recently died or become brain dead, which means that although the their body is being kept alive by machines, the brain has no sign of life.
		Heart transplant recipients can exercise and are encouraged to exercise to improve the function of the heart and to avoid weight gain.
	www.webmd.com /content/pages/9/1675_57820.htm (2003 words)

	Heart
		Transplantation is performed for many heart conditions, but the two most common heart diseases leading to transplantation are coronary artery disease (narrowing or hardening of the coronary arteries) and cardiomyopathy (weakening of the heart muscle).
		Heart transplant patients are then required to stay in the London area for another two months for medical tests (such as heart biopsies) and physiotherapy (exercise program) in the Transplant Outpatient Clinic.
		Most heart transplant recipients return to normal, active lives and report that they are satisfied with the quality of their lives.
	www.lhsc.on.ca /transplant/heart.htm (601 words)

	Heart Transplantation - Texas Heart Institute Heart Information Center
		The need for a heart transplant can be traced to one of many heart problems, each of which causes damage to the heart muscle.
		The two most common heart problems are coronary artery disease (the buildup of plaque in the arteries of the heart) and idiopathic cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle without a known cause).
		The transplant candidates who have the best results are younger than 60 years old and have no serious medical problems other than those with their heart.
	texasheart.org /HIC/Topics/Proced/hearttx.cfm (1519 words)

	Heart Transplant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Transplantation is the surgical placement of a human organ from a patient who has been declared clinically brain dead (cadaveric donor).
		Heart transplantation involves the placement of a healthy heart from a cadaveric donor into the recipient with end-stage heart disease.
		Heart-lung transplantation is the surgical placement of a set of heart and lungs from a cadaveric donor into the recipient whose own heart and lungs are badly damaged from a disease process.
	www.cts.usc.edu /ht-pg-abouthearttransplantation.html (274 words)

	University of Kentucky Transplant Center - Heart Organ Transplantation
		Heart transplant is the surgical procedure in which a heart from a donor is placed in the body of a patient with irreversible heart failure.
		Heart transplant is the best treatment for patients with chronic heart failure when medical therapy is no longer effective.
		Frequently, heart failure is caused by blockages in the coronary arteries that caused a heart attack in the past.
	www.mc.uky.edu /transplant/heart.htm (915 words)

	Pediatric Heart Transplant Surgery - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
		A heart transplant is an operation performed to replace a diseased heart with a healthy one from another person.
		A pediatric heart transplant is recommended for children who have serious heart dysfunction and will not be able to live without having the heart replaced.
		The pediatric heart transplant team will consider all information from interviews, your child's medical history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests in determining whether your child can be a candidate for heart transplantation.
	www.lpch.org /DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/transplant/hearttran.html (2411 words)

	Heart Transplant Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The USC cardiopulmonary transplant team is headed by Vaughn A. Starnes, M.D., a world-recognized leader and innovator in heart, heart-lung, lung transplantation, and cardiothoracic surgery.
		Most transplant patients are typically healthy, without end stage organ disease, are under the age of 70 and usually carry the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy or coronary disease.
		Prior surgical procedures are not a contraindication to heart transplantation.
	www.cts.usc.edu /hearttransplantprogram.html (371 words)

	Heart transplant
		Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart.
		In heart transplantation, the healthy heart must come from a person who recently died or is on life-support and is brain dead.
		This is different than a kidney transplant, because a kidney may be donated by a living person.
	www.pennhealth.com /ency/article/003003.htm (613 words)

	Heart transplant: A treatment for end-stage heart failure - MayoClinic.com
		Your heart is a muscular pump that circulates blood throughout your body.
		When you're notified, you and your transplant team have a limited amount of time to consider whether to accept the donation, and you'll be expected to arrive at the hospital soon after being notified of the potential donation.
		Your new heart may fail because of organ rejection, because of damage to the new organ due to the underlying causes of heart failure, or because of other factors that couldn't be controlled.
	www.mayoclinic.com /health/heart-transplant/HB00045 (1591 words)

	Heart transplant
		A heart transplant is a procedure in which a surgeon removes a diseased heart and replaces it with a donor heart.
		During a heart transplant, a mechanical pump circulates blood through the body while the surgeon removes the diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy heart from a recently deceased donor.
		At some centers, transplant candidates must demonstrate that they have quit smoking and/or overusing alcohol for a period of time (such as 4 to 6 months) before they are considered for placement on a transplant waiting list.
	www.webmd.com /hw/heart_disease/hw30661.asp (646 words)

	Heart Transplant - Strong Heart and Vascular Center - Rochester, NY
		The benefits of a heart transplant can be dramatic: restoring your mobility, your energy, and your life.
		If, after talking with your cardiologist, you want to explore the possibility of a transplant, a member from the Strong Health Clinical Cardiology team will take the time to explain both the benefits and risks—helping you decide what choice is right for you.
		Whether you are waiting for a transplant, or recovering from one, we have a wonderful support staff to help you get on with your new life.
	www.stronghealth.com /services/cardiology/transplant/index.cfm (271 words)

	About Heart Transplant, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903
		End-stage heart disease means that without some dramatic change in heart function, severe congestive heart failure will persist, and death is likely to occur within two years.
		While the requirements for transplant may differ slightly at various centers, there is a general consensus that certain risk factors are associated with higher morbidity and decreased compliance.
		This committee meets on Monday afternoons and consists of the transplant cardiologists, transplant surgeons, nurse coordinators, pharmacist, social workers, a psychiatrist, a dietician, and cardiac rehabilitation nurses.
	www.rwjuh.edu /medical_services/heart_center_transplant.html (1523 words)

	Heart Transplant Surgery - Page 7
		Even considering that patients are in a life–threatening situation at the time of transplant, 85 percent of those who receive heart transplants survive for more than one year and 70 percent live at least five years following the procedure.
		The improved life expectancy of patients after a heart transplant is largely due to cyclosporine, an immunosuppressive drug that appeared in 1983.
		In a recent study, 40 heart transplant patients were given daily doses of antioxidant vitamins C and E in addition to cholesterol-lowering
	heart.healthcentersonline.com /heartfailure/hearttransplant7.cfm (874 words)

	Heart Transplant
		In contrast to the 1980s when the majority of heart transplant recipients were sick but stable patients waiting at home, the majority of heart transplant recipients are now hospitalized Status 1 patients at the time of transplant.
		At the same time, medical therapy of heart failure has improved (particularly with the advent of ACE inhibitors), making it imperative that heart transplantation be limited to those patients who have truly exhausted medical therapy and thus are likely to derive the maximum benefit from heart transplantation.
		A final emerging impact on heart transplant candidacy is the increasing use of ventricular assist devices (VADs) as destination therapy rather than as bridges to transplantation.
	www.regence.com /trgmedpol/transplant/tra02.html (1003 words)

	OHSU Heart Transplant Program
		The OHSU Heart Transplant Program began in December 1985 and was Medicare certified three years later.
		In the 1980s, transplantation was the only treatment option for a broad range of patients with advanced heart failure, but in the 1990s, the OHSU heart transplant group formed the OHSU Heart Failure Treatment Program to develop new medical treatment options for chronic heart failure.
		Also, The Oregon Heart Failure Project, a study unit designed to evaluate clinical and cost outcomes from congestive heart failure, is demonstrating improved outcomes for its patients, including decreased hospitalization and better quality of life.
	www.ohsu.edu /transplant/heart.html (399 words)

	Science NetLinks: Heart 1: Transplant
		This first lesson, Heart 1: Transplant, focuses on the state of medical care of the human heart today and on modern medical advances—such as heart transplants—that "give today's human beings a better chance of staying healthy than their forebears had," as noted in the first part of the benchmark for this lesson.
		Regarding the heart, researchers have discovered that upper elementary school students realize that the heart is a pump, but they are not aware that the blood returns to the heart.
		Congenital Heart Information Network is dedicated to providing information, support services, and resources to families of children with congenital and acquired heart disease, adults with congenital heart defects, and the professionals who work with them.
	www.sciencenetlinks.com /lessons.cfm?DocID=299 (2509 words)

	Heart transplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A heart transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with heart failure or severe coronary artery disease.
		The most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor (allograft) and implant it into the patient (usually after removing the patients original heart, although this is not always the case).
		The first heart transplant was performed by Professor Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in December 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heart_transplant (177 words)

	Adult Heart Transplant Program - Inova Health System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We recognize that the prospect of having a heart transplant can be both intimidating and overwhelming; not only for patients, but also for their loved ones.
		During the last decade, with the introduction of new immunosuppressive drugs and the development of improved surgical techniques, heart transplantation remains a widely accepted therapy for patients with end-stage heart disease.
		The program is responsible for the area's first heart transplant in 1986 and has launched many other programs, including the ventricular assist device and lung transplant programs.
	www.inova.org /inovapublic.srt/transplant/heart/index.jsp?tStatus=32 (295 words)

	NOVA Online \| Electric Heart \| Operation: Heart Transplant
		But despite this general shortage of hearts, the operation was (and is) routinely performed in American hospitals (During the same period, about 2,300 hearts were successfully transplanted.*) Lasting up to seven hours (and sometimes longer), the surgery is time-consuming and the work, intricate and involved.
		The step-by-step procedure, however, is fairly straightforward and not at all difficult to comprehend.
		Enter our virtual NOVA operating theatre, where you will be given a scalpel and perform a heart transplant of your own.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/eheart/transplant.html (208 words)

	Pediatric Heart Transplant - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
		Since then, the pediatric heart transplant team has performed more than 180 heart transplants on children from across the country and all around the world.
		Because transplantation on children is a final course of treatment, the pediatric heart transplant team works closely with the Children’s cardiovascular surgical program, which performs nearly 800 surgical procedures a year, and our medical cardiology program, which performs more than 1,500 catheterization cases a year.
		The Heart Transplant program is located at Children’s at Egleston, on the Emory University campus, in a safe, neighborhood close to lodging, restaurants and public transportation.
	www.choa.org /default.aspx?id=693 (252 words)

	Heart-Lung Transplant
		A heart-lung transplant refers to the transplantation of one or both lungs and heart from a single cadaver donor.
		A combined heart-lung transplantation is intended to prolong survival and improve function in patients with end-stage cardiopulmonary or pulmonary disease.
		When the patient is eligible to receive a heart in accordance with their criteria for heart distribution (see Transplant Policy No. 2), the lung shall be allocated to the heart-lung candidate from the same donor.
	www.regence.com /trgmedpol/transplant/tra03.html (532 words)

	CHFpatients.com - Heart Transplant - Updates
		So heart recipients who are going to have a heart biopsy and who have a breath analysis that is positive should still have the biopsy - the test does not predict the presence of rejection.
		Heart biopsies were done at weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 24, and 52.
		February 28, 2000 - Heart biopsies to test for rejection should be done on a regular basis for pediatric patients longer than 2 years after their heart transplant, even if the patients do not show rejection symptoms.
	www.chfpatients.com /tx/txextras.htm (7401 words)

	Heart Transplant Story
		Sara Shumway is the daughter of Dr. Norman Shumway, one of the pioneers in heart transplant history.
		This time, the transplant coordinator said not to leave home because they weren't sure yet, but there might be a heart for me and she would call back in 2 hours.
		People with heart transplants have run marathons but this is a rather extreme example.
	www.geocities.com /ehtlibahunt/transplant.html (3755 words)

	Heart Transplant Criteria
		Heart transplantation can dramatically improve a person's life expectancy and quality of life.
		The ideal heart transplant candidate is a person with end-stage heart disease for whom conventional therapy is not likely to provide acceptable symptomatic benefit or satisfactorily improve life expectancy.
		Transplant candidates must also be willing to adhere to a regimented medical program and work closely with the medical team to maximize the benefits and reduce the risks of transplantation.
	www.mayoclinic.org /heart-transplant/adultcriteria.html (248 words)

	Heart and Lung Transplant
		A pioneering heart surgeon, Dr Christiaan Barnard, performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant operation in 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa.
		Only about 2,000 heart transplants are done each year in North America, the major reason is lack of donors.
		Just as with heart transplantation, demand for donor lungs is greater than the supply.
	www.emedicinehealth.com /heart_and_lung_transplant/article_em.htm (521 words)

	UMHS - Heart Transplant
		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.
		Now, improvements in the field have made it possible for many newborns to those in their seventies to be eligible for a transplant.
	www.med.umich.edu /1libr/heart/surg02.htm (333 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Beating-heart transplant UK first
		Donor hearts are normally given a high dose of potassium to stop them beating and are packed in ice which helps to keep them in a state of "suspended animation".
		But there is only a four-to-six-hour window for the organ to be transplanted into the recipient, which could be a problem if a heart becomes available in a remote area - many organs in the UK are transported by road.
		In 2004/05 115 heart transplants were carried out, 15 patients died while waiting for a donor organ and 54 patients were still on the waiting list.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/health/5041054.stm (732 words)

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