Innovative 'heart in a box' technology gives hope to transplant patients
A new heart transplant technique is reducing waiting lists for patients in Australia and potentially around the world.
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A new heart transplant technique is reducing waiting lists for patients in Australia and potentially around the world.
Sep 6, 2022
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The confluence of two major health crises—the opioid epidemic and organ shortage—has moved surgeons to consider transplanting organs deemed as less than "perfect" in an effort to expand the donor pool and save more lives, ...
Jun 6, 2019
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A new 3D computer modeling system may significantly improve a surgeon's ability to select the best sized donor heart for children receiving heart transplants, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's ...
Nov 8, 2015
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A team of medical researchers from Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has found that mortality rates are higher for transplant patients receiving a new heart from a person infected ...
With heart disease the No. 1 killer in the United States, heart transplants hit record highs in 2022.
Jan 20, 2023
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In a large study based on register data from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) spanning a total of 44,516 patients across the globe, an international team of researchers has shown a significant ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans with heart failure are sick enough to benefit from a transplant, yet only around 4,000 heart transplants are performed annually.
Feb 8, 2023
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Drug intoxication deaths have risen dramatically over the past several decades. From 1999 to 2016, the number of deaths due to drug intoxication more than tripled. Over the same period, the number of hearts recovered for ...
Feb 6, 2019
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Patients who were transplanted with hearts from hepatitis C-positive donors had comparable outcomes after one year to patients who received hearts from donors that didn't have the disease, according to a Vanderbilt University ...
Dec 20, 2019
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Demand for life-saving organ transplantation is at an all-time high. In 2021, a record 41,000-plus organ transplants were performed in the U.S., with top numbers for kidney, liver and heart transplants. But a limited supply ...
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