Heart transplant patients celebrate life
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Eddie Knipp's two heart transplants have given him the wisdom to savor the small wonders of life and the strength to endure one of its largest losses &#151; the death of a child. On Tuesday, Knipp and nine other heart transplant recipients celebrated more than 20 years of survival after surgery at the place that made it possible: the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
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Scientists say they have found a safe way to give carbon monoxide to help organ transplant patients.
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At about 10 am Tuesday, the heart of a 2-month-old boy began beating inside the chest of Abigail Patrick, 4 months, during the transplant surgery at Vanderbilt University Children&#39;s Hospital.
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A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died waiting.
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Jennifer Sutton's heart almost killed her. On Tuesday she got her first look at the culprit. Three months after the defective organ was cut from her body, the 23-year-old transplant patient came to contemplate a mass of pink and yellow tissue suspended in a transparent container at a medical museum in London.
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A newborn brother and sister were nestled in a hospital bed with their 56-year-old mother on Wednesday, a day after their history-making arrival.
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Infusing patients with bone marrow cells can reinvigorate their dying hearts and grow tiny new arteries and heart muscle tissue, a treatment that may one day make many heart transplants unnecessary, Brazilian researchers said on Friday.
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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.
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Two men are donating kidneys to each other's wives in a four-way surgical swap at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. It is the first time such a swap among healthy, living donors and patients with kidney failure has taken place at the hospital.
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A little girl just a week shy of her second birthday has become the youngest person in the United States ever to receive a "piggyback" heart transplant, a procedure that involved implanting a second heart into her tiny chest.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will welcome ten transplant recipients - from a six-year-old girl to a 74- year-old granddad - to 10 Downing Street to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NHS Organ Donor Register.
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Giving a bear hug to his surgeon and a thumbs-up to other hospital staff, a 14-year-old boy went home for Christmas - the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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TORONTO (CP) - More heart-transplant patients are surviving longer than 10 years ago, but a shortfall in the number of donor organs means Canadians continue to die while awaiting a new heart, a report released Wednesday shows.
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In the past few months, Sarasota resident Mary Pierson has taken some of the most important tests of her life. Tests that determined she was a possible match for her husband, Mark, who needs a kidney transplant.
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NEW YORK  - After children and adolescents receive an organ transplant, more than 90 percent do well at the one-year mark. Thereafter, unfortunately, the rate of loss of the grafted organ increases, investigators report.
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A Holland woman who owes the past six years of her life to a heart transplant is now awaiting a kidney transplant. Brenda Veenman, 60, was added to the University of Michigan&#39;s kidney transplant list Dec.
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Two years ago, Andrew Smith received a heart transplant at UCLA Medical Center. Today, the 46-year-old is healthy once again, training to compete in a triathlon -- thanks to the