Transplantation
Ken’s Heart Transplant Recovery Battle
Ken’s transplant recovery is not the happiest transplant experience but it says a lot about the survival instincts you may need to summon if things go wrong and especially if you encounter the dreaded aspergillius mold infection.
Vata Derangement, The Shrink and Heart Transplantation
The battle from the effects of heart transplantation continues here in Albany NY. Of late, a combination of dreadful weather, two bouts with the flu and some surgical procedures have left me reeling. I have pretty much been confined to quarters since December 27th. My only escapes have been to see physicians. These appointments have [...]
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.
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.
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..
CMV Retinitis and Heart Transplantation
For heart transplant recipients, the range of sypmtoms of CMV can be permanent and life-altering.
Important Heart Transplant News From Johns Hopkins University
A March report from Johns Hopkins University about heart transplant recipients and the 10-year survival benchmark highlights the donor award debate in Congress.
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