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Directory1.comMassachusetts General Hospital Cardiac Surgery transplant website.
http://www.massgeneral.org/cardiac/surgery/surgery/transplant.html
"Autoimmune rejection" of neonatal heart transplants in experimental Chagas disease is a parasite-specific response to infected host tissue -- Tarleton et al. 94 (8): 3932 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/94/8/3932
People with long-term heart failure, heart muscle disease, or other irreversible heart injury from coronary artery disease and multiple heart attacks that can't be treated by any other medical or surgical means may be candidates for heart transplants.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4588
Infants and children with complex forms of congenital heart defects and those with dilated cardiomyopathy may need a heart transplant.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4589
My name is John Fisher and I am now 45years old, I had my heart transplant on Sunday 30th July 2000 at the age of 38
http://www.heart-transplant.co.uk/
BBC News Online looks back on 25 years of heart transplants in the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3795153.stm
Modified versions of the Aids virus are being used in experiments to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2002/leicester_2002/2248996.stm
Coronary Artery Disease, Congestive Heart Failure, and Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy are conditions leading to the need for a Heart Transplant. Advice on how to get a heart transplant.
http://texheartsurgeons.com/HrtXplnt.htm
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (http://www.unos.org), over 4,100 Americans are currently candidates for heart transplants, meaning that they desperately need them, they satisfy the criteria for "medical utility" (i.e., a transplant will probably keep them alive), and they have adequate insurance or other funding to cover their cost.
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidlperry/heart.htm
Patients receiving heart transplants at medical facilities that meet Medicare standards have a higher survival rate, the Health Care Financing Administration announced today.
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/1995pres/950327a.html
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