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Heart transplant — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… … Medical dictionary
Heart transplantation — or cardiac transplantation, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor… … Wikipedia
Heart–lung transplant — Intervention ICD 9 CM 33.6 MeSH … Wikipedia
Transplant, heart — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… … Medical dictionary
Transplant rejection — Classification and external resources Micrograph showing lung transplant rejection. Lung biopsy. H E stain. ICD … Wikipedia
heart — noun 1 part of the body ADJECTIVE ▪ healthy, strong ▪ bad, weak ▪ beating, pounding, racing ▪ … Collocations dictionary
heart attack — noun a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function • Hypernyms: ↑attack, ↑heart failure, ↑coronary failure • Part Meronyms: ↑coronary thrombosis, ↑coronary, ↑myocardial infarction, ↑myocardial infar … Useful english dictionary
Non-heart-beating donation — Prior to the introduction of brain stem death into law in the mid to late 1970s, all organ transplants from cadaveric donors came from non heart beating donors (NHBD).[citation needed] Brain stem dead donors (beating heart cadavers), however, led … Wikipedia
Organ transplant — An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient s own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient s damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site … Wikipedia
Cardiac transplant — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… … Medical dictionary
