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Home / Health / Conditions and Diseases / Cardiovascular Disorders / Heart Disease / Transplant
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- Doug's Heart - Personal experiences of Doug Fredlund who holds the record for the longest wait for a transplant on a HeartMate LVAD at the University of Minnesota Hospital.
Doug.BassGuitar.com/heart.htm
- Hahnemann Heart - Hahnemann University Hospital offers the AbioCor implantable artificial heart.
hahnemannheart.com
- Health Care Financial Administration - A list of medicare approved heart, lung, heart-lung, and liver transplant centers is provided.
www.hcfa.gov/medicare/tranplan.htm
- Heart Failure & Transplant at California Pacific Medical Center - Programs for end-stage cardiac disease, artificial hearts and heart transplant.
www.cpmc.org/heart
- Heart Transplant: A Patient's Perspective - Personal account of a heart transplant in 1997, before, during and after the procedure.
www.geocities.com/ehtlibahunt/transplant.html
- Heart Transplantation at Columbia University Department of Surgery - Information on heart disease and heart transplantation, immunology and how to be a proactive participant in one's health care.
www.hearttransplant.com
- HowStuffWorks: How Artificial Hearts Work - Graphic narrative shows the self-contained AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart, how it's implanted, and how it compares to the failed artificial hearts in the past.
www.howstuffworks.com/artificial-heart.htm
- MUSC Medical Center Heart Transplant Program - About the program as well as patient education, heart failure management and a support group.
www.musc.edu/hearttransplant
- National Heart Center of Singapore - A discussion about how a transplant is done, who might get one, how donors are found and life after a transplant.
www.nhc.com.sg
- Newsmaker Interview- Artificial Heart - An interview by Sean Henahan with heart transplant authority Dr. Mehmet Oz on the state of the art of the artificial heart, including LVADs and the new Abiocor implant.
www.accessexcellence.org/WN/NM/ozpage1.html
- Richard Helm - A personal story of a heart transplant in November of 1994 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the William S. Middleton Veteran's Hospital in Madison.
www.radiks.net/rlhelm
- Temple's Heart Failure & Transplant Center - Information for patients, family and friends including evaluation, waiting, medication, diet and other resources.
www.temple.edu/heartfailure/html/heart_transplant.html
- The Straight Story - In depth look at heart transplants, from qualifying till after the surgery and going home and life after. Real-life stories and links.
www.jonsplace.org/CHF_tx/CHFtransplant.htm
- University of Michigan Health System - Topics covered are who is a candidate for transplant, how it is done, complications, the survival rate for heart transplants and a number to help find a doctor.
www.med.umich.edu/1libr/heart/surg02.htm
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