Tag: heart transplant
Dowton Abbey’s Bates And Hope
Maybe it was Bates from Dowton Abbey or an interview with a Syrian refugee or a comment by a destitute organic dairy farmer from Vermont, but one of these persons spoke about the power of hope. It may have been all three.
Blood Tests for Heart Transplant Patients
As a heart transplant enrollee, you are going to have hundreds of blood draws before and after your transplant. It may not seem like it, but they all serve a purpose.
New and Improved Anti-Coagulant Approved
How would you like a new anticoagulant that does not increase the risk of excessive bleeding?
The Professional Heart Transplant Patient
One of the realities of being a heart transplant patient is that you will become a professional patient, a job you may never have seen coming.
Extending the Donor Organ Age
Astonishingly, in Europe 4,500 hearts that are approved for transplantation are not being used every year. Br. Bombardini explained this phenomenon,
One Happy Heart Transplant’s Thanksgiving
My hope is that wherever you are in the transplant cycle, you will rejoice in your prolonged life or in the hope that accompanies the wait.
Sudden Cardiac Death And You
If you are related to a young person, under the age of 35, who suffers Sudden Cardiac Death, you are at a high risk of undiagnosed heart disease.
Understanding The Heart Organ Award System
Do you know when “the call” might come? Read this and you might understand a little beter how organs and awarded.
Medicine Cocktail May Help Patients Avoid Heart Transplant
The Jewish Hospital of Louisville announced a new medicine cocktail that may eliminate or seriously delay the need for heart transplantation..
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