Science news articles about 'heart transplants'

Heart transplants save the lives of more than 2,100 Americans every year. But many more patients are still ... sick enough to need a transplant, but struggle every day with severe heart failure that limits ...

... (AP) -- Government regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for broader use of a blood test that can spare heart transplant patients the ordeal of repeated biopsies ...

... is important to short- and long-term survival in heart transplantation, according to a retrospective study presented at the American ... orthotopic (replacing a failing organ with a healthy one) heart transplant between 1998 and 2007. In this dataset, patients ...

... surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday ...

... progress in treatment options for patients with heart failure, such as heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices ... role as leaders of specialized services, such as transplant centers and heart failure clinics. They will be cardiologists with experience ...

Ten-day-old Lillian O'Connor needs a heart transplant if she is going to survive more than a few months, say doctors in Toronto.

Lillian O'Connor, an Island infant waiting for a heart transplant at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto, is doing well, her parents told CBC News in an email Tuesday.

He received a second heart transplant on Dec. 17, 2007, but was unable to recover his ... wife, Sandra, were believed to be the first married couple to have had heart transplants, has died. He was 59 ...

... the largest randomized exercise intervention trial in heart-transplant patients, which was published in the April edition ... for Dwight Kroening, who went on to become the first heart-transplant recipient to complete an Ironman triathlon ...

Heart transplant recipients' cardio-respiratory fitness is around 30 to 50 percent lower than age ...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A heart transplant recipient who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of cancer, his heart still going strong, his widow said....

... evidence that cigarette smoke exposure prior to a heart transplant in either the donor, recipient, or both ... that may lead to new ways to help patients with heart transplants live longer," he says. Study ...

... . However, these characteristics are documented to a lesser extent in heart transplant patients, who are at least twice as likely ... reviewed the records of 312 patients who had received heart transplants between 1988 and 2006. Patients had an average ...

... . In Michigan, 90 patients are currently waiting for a heart transplant. Henry Ford Hospital is one of only three ... to assess a patient's blood vessels for blockages after a heart transplant. Prior research in the general population ...

... his heart transplant in 2005, Ramon Llenado underwent a biopsy every week, then every month, then every three months. Most heart transplant patients face a lifetime of these invasive ...