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After 25 years with a new heart, Maryland man is still healthy
Concord Monitor According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the 10-year survival rate for heart transplant surgery is about 56 percent. They often face post-surgical complications, including primary graft dysfunction, which occurs when the new donor … For 25 Years, Another’s Heart has Beat in His ChestLiveScience.com |
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Heart recipient of 25 years: ‘I’ve beat the odds’
MassLive.com According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the 10-year survival rate for heart transplant surgery is about 56 percent. They often face post-surgical complications including primary graft dysfunction, which occurs when the new donor heart … |
New York Daily News |
As Robinson Cano asks Mariners for help, it’s like Alex Rodriguez in Texas all …
New York Daily News Baseball lost one of its true pioneers on Thursday when Dr. Frank Jobe — the longtime L.A. Dodgers orthopedist who invented “Tommy John” tendon transplant surgery that saved hundreds of pitchers’ careers — died at age 88. When Dodgers lefty Tommy … |
The Northern Echo |
Gardener’s cycling and music marathon to raise funds for girl with rare cancer
The Northern Echo Gaby’s mother, Vicki, said they would learn this week if the treatment had been successful and transplant surgery could go ahead. Ms Alderson, a former pupil of Humersknott Academy, in Darlington, said: “Unfortunately, Gaby hasn’t either been well … |
LiveScience.com |
For 25 Years, Another’s Heart has Beat in His Chest
LiveScience.com About 100,000 people have undergone heart transplantation worldwide. According to the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the 10-year survival rate for heart transplant surgery is about 56 percent. Survivors often face post-surgical … |
Yahoo SportsFerguson: Dr. Jobe had a great impact on baseballTSN (blog)He is the surgeon who pioneered the ulnar collateral ligament transplant surgery that saved so many elbows and prolonged the careers of so many players, pitchers and position player…
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Reader Op-Ed: I’m Not Entitled, I Just Wanted to Save My Life
Utah Political Capitol The transplant surgery itself cost $79,000. My kidneys were in bad enough shape that a separate surgery to remove them was required, then six weeks of dialysis before the transplant could take place. The medications I needed to keep my body from … |
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Robot-assisted liver transplant operation performed in Shanghai for the first time
Shanghaiist The future is now, guys. Staff members at Shanghai’s Zhongshan hospital announced today that Asia’s first-ever robot-assisted liver transplant surgery, involving a mother and her 20-month-old son, was successfully completed this past week. Shanghai … |
Tommy John surgery pioneer Frank Jobe diesThe StateLos Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Dr. Frank Jobe, who performed the first successful elbow ligament transplant surgery in 1974, died Thursday. He was 88 years old. The Los Angeles Dodgers said Jobe…
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Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology Reports Fourth Quarter and Year …
Wall Street Journal Mr. Green continued, “During the December quarter we continued to make good clinical progress when in December a fifth successful regenerated human trachea transplant surgery using both our synthetic scaffold and bioreactor was performed. In early … |