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Three Year Old Heart Recipient On Road to Recovery
May 09, 2013 | WKRC CBS 12 Cincinnati

Heart transplant recipient meets donor family
May 05, 2013 | KGPE CBS 47 Fresno

Reuniting with friends
May 04, 2013 | WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg

Heart Transplant Wikipedia Information

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 (allograft) and implant it into the patient. The patients own heart may either be removed (orthotopic procedure)...

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Zipper Club: fundraising a comic for kids with congenital heart defects
April 17, 2013 | Boing Boing
At age 8, Cliffy Goldfarb was the recipient of an emergency heart transplant. At age 9, Cliffy is now struggling to cope with the limitations his still recovering body is...

Starla Chapman: A Lesson In Perspective on Alabama Crimson Tide Football (and Life)...
April 10, 2013 | Roll 'Bama Roll
The reality facing this little girl was that her cancer and her cure were both killing her, and a heart transplant was not an option due to the cancer. The doctors wanted to...

Club donates $ 1,000 in memory of Tourte
April 05, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Last year, Key Club members worked to raise money for Tourte, who died while awaiting a heart transplant. This year the club decided to donate to the Miracle Park in his memory...

Book review:' Taylor's Gift' tells of parents' grief, need for organ donation
March 28, 2013 | indystar.com
Q: My father had a successful heart transplant in June 2012 at IU Methodist in Indianapolis. My family and I have reached out to the family of the donor, but we have not heard...

Charles Payne Returns to FBN After His Wife Successfully Undergoes Heart Transplant
October 27, 2012 | TVNewser
Fox Business contributor Charles Payne shared the amazing story of his wife's heart transplant this week on FBN's'' Varney & Co.'' Payne was sitting in for anchor Stuart...

Crews prepare for intensive surgery on Wells Street Bridge
February 28, 2013 | chicagotribune.com - Local news
Over the next week, construction crews will descend on the Wells Street Bridge to perform the engineering equivalent of a heart transplant on the nearly century-old structure. ...

Heart Transplant on twitter

	RT @lemariogunz: I had a heart transplant , I replace it with ice #stonecold Twitter: @TheOnlyTiightaz
	RT @Nem_ie: how can you follow your heart after you get a heart transplant? Twitter: @opsiii
	RT @Nem_ie: how can you follow your heart after you get a heart transplant? Twitter: @idysteel
	how can you follow your heart after you get a heart transplant? Twitter: @Nem_ie
	Meet Kim! She is waiting for a heart transplant. She has a rare heart valve condition but today we… http://t.co/p5amZUntwC Twitter: @KarlynEsq
	Celebration for Central Texas’ longest-living heart transplant... http://t.co/3kG8iurPK9 Twitter: @maroser

YouTube Videos

Heart Transplant - Dr. Terry Yau
April 16, 2013

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Heart transplant surgery
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