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NEVER GIVE UP! How I Survived a Heart Transplant, Multiple Heart Surgeries, Colon Cancer, A Coma, And Acute Thrombosis: The Six by Frankie Boyer Posted Wed 28 Jul 2010 9:54am care and having nursed him back to health after each of these crises. In their new book,NEVER GIVE UP! How I Survived a Heart Transplant, Multiple Heart Surgeries, Colon Cancer...Frankie Boyer's -The Health Show Interview with Dick Stevens, one of America's most successful and respected businessmen, is also a survivor of a heart transplant, a coma Read on »

Implanted Device Working to Begin Trials – Heart Transplant Patients receive a device to monitor the Transplanted Heart by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Tue 21 Apr 2009 11:47pm it hopes will dramatically reduce the need for biopsies after heart transplants. “TransWorld Heart CorporationTM has developed a patented and patent-pending medical device based system to replace the current method of routine post-transplant heart biopsies. This system, the use of which is supported by leading cardiologists, will result in the elimination Read on »

(via thelovelybones) This is for my precious heart. No heart transplant for me. I want to spend my life with the one I was born by Lauren Posted Thu 16 Jul 2009 12:00am (via thelovelybones) This is for my precious heart. No heart transplant for me. I want to spend my life with the one I was born with. Scar tissue and all. Read on »

Open-Hearted: A Heart Transplant Recipient’s Letter to Her Donor by Donate Life Illinois .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Thu 13 Aug 2009 5:50pm Last month we posted some behind-the-scenes photos of our video shoot with heart transplant recipient Melissa Simon. Today, is the fun part. We’re excited to unveil our latest video, Open-Hearted. Again, special thanks to Melissa for sharing her story and helping us pay tribute to Chloe. The video is also over here on YouTube if you’d like Read on »

Open-Hearted: A Heart Transplant Recipient’s Letter to Her Donor by DonateLifeIllinois Posted Thu 13 Aug 2009 7:48pm Last month we posted some behind-the-scenes photos of our video shoot with heart transplant recipient Melissa Simon. Today, is the fun part. We’re excited to unveil our latest video, Open-Hearted. Again, special thanks to Melissa for sharing her story and helping us pay tribute to Chloe. The video is also over here on YouTube if you’d like Read on »

‘Beating Heart’ Technology Could Revolutionize Field Of Heart Transplantation by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy

Posted Mon 06 Dec 2010 5:46pm The heart transplantation team at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is currently leading a national, multicenter phase 2 clinical study of an experimental organ... device company TransMedics, works this way: After a heart is removed from a donor’s body, it is placed in a high-tech OCS box and is immediately revived to a beating state Read on »

Heart transplant patients reminded to take meds via text by Mike Klein Patient Expert

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GABRIELLA IS OFFICIALLY ON THE HEART TRANSPLANT LIST!!!!!!!!!!! by GabriellasHeart Posted Thu 11 Feb 2010 5:19pm GABRIELLA IS OFFICIALLY ON THE HEART TRANSPLANT LIST!!!!!!!!!!! Praise God and His amazing love. And my heart is constantly with the family who will give my daughter the gift of life while greiving their own loss. God knows who they are already. Read on »

When The World's First Heart Transplant Operation Was? by Ng Peng Hock Patient Expert

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 3:05pm Heart transplant operations are not uncommon nowadays. With the current available technology and know-how, performing a heart transplant is not really a big issue, as long as there is suitable organ. But, do you know when the world’s first heart transplant operation was? Medical history was indeed rewritten 40 years ago in the middle Read on »

Which Hospital Should One Go For Heart Transplant? by Ng Peng Hock Patient Expert

Posted Wed 07 Jan 2009 3:06pm ’ mortality at 30 days and at 1 year after heart transplant increased as the annual procedure volume decreased. For example, a center that performs more than 40 heart transplants per... When patients suffer serious heart disease that causes their hearts to fail, the only thing the doctor can do for them is to perform a heart transplant if everything else Read on »