Sentences with phrase «than heart transplant»

They didn't specifically examine rejection rates, nor did they examine treatments other than heart transplant or outcome among patients without antibodies.

Not exact matches

His research concluded that only those with a high risk of death actually benefited from heart transplants, more than 80 \ % of donor hearts going to patients who were likely to live for longer without a transplant.

Is there any limit to the things we may make and alter (heart transplants, artificial insemination, «test - tube babies,» nuclear weapons — more than enough to destroy all forms of life on earth!)?

The CVC has performed more heart transplants than any other hospital in Boston over the last 5 years, and has the largest advanced heart failure program in New England.

More than 2,000 U.S. children are on an organ transplant waiting list for kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs and other organs, according to the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

When the costs of care while waiting for an urgent transplant are considered, transplantation with the first suitable heart is also cheaper than waiting for a better - matched organ, researchers said.

In the United States alone, more than 20,000 heart, liver, and kidney transplants are performed every year.

«Speedy heart transplant for kids better than waiting for perfect match.»

A transplant biopsy system that uses gene chips to read molecules is far safer and more effective than existing approaches used for heart transplant biopsies and is showing promising results for lung transplant biopsies, new University of Alberta - led research shows.

But there are far more patients on waitlists for a transplant than there are donated hearts.

The study in which mice given heart transplants survived for longer when forced to listen to Verdi's La Traviata or a selection of Mozart than when listening to Enya or a monotone could just be down to variety (31 March, p 16).

The team compared the effects of 12 weeks of high - intensity interval training versus continued moderate training in 16 stable heart transplant recipients who had been living with their new heart for more than one year.

«The impaired heart rate response has been considered a hindrance for more demanding high - intensity training, but this new study documents that stable heart transplant recipients benefit from this type of training more than from the moderate training that has been recommended so far.

High - intensity exercise can help stable heart transplant patients reach higher levels of exercise capacity, and gain better control of their blood pressure than moderate intensity exercise, investigators report in a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

In all, more than 100,000 Americans are waiting for transplants across the range of organs — heart, lung, kidney, intestine, pancreas, and liver; some 12 percent will die before their turn arrives.

In a 2003 experiment, the hearts remained viable and pumping for more than an hour after being thawed and transplanted.

All of them were too frail for heart - transplant surgery and were not expected to survive longer than a year without artificial assistance.

According to Goss, this raised the survival rate to 85 per cent for heart and islet transplants, where tolerance is easier to obtain than for skin grafts.

Mice fed a high - fat diet rejected their heart transplants faster than mice fed a lower - fat diet.

Based on data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, more than 4,000 patients are currently on the waiting list for a heart transplant.

Transplanted hearts lasted in four groups of mice as follows: • 21 days: mice with hyperlipidemia caused by a genetic mutation of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) placed on a high - fat diet • 51 days: healthy mice placed on a high - fat diet leading to hyperlipidemia • 61 days: mice with hyperlipidemia caused by a genetic mutation of ApoE on a lower - fat diet • More than 100 days: healthy mice placed on a lower - fat diet

Someone with a heart transplant who is sick is different than a standard hospital patient.»

Ranked consistently as one of the nation's top programs, we've performed more than 600 heart transplants, using the most sophisticated technologies and techniques.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

Eugene Storozynsky, MD, an assistant professor in the Heart Failure, Heart Transplant Unit of Strong Memorial Hospital, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center, says that some experts believe that the adrenaline receptors of women may be different than those of men.

It not so much improves the district as replaces it, making the procedure more akin to a heart transplant rather than a repair of part of the heart.

The aforementioned sedans are undeniably speedy and dynamically impressive — but at the end of the day, the M5 isn't much more than a 528i on steroids, the S6 is an A6 that has undergone a complicated heart transplant via Sant» Agata Bolognese, the CTS - V and the IS - F both have relatively humble genetic backgrounds, and the E63 AMG started life on the same assembly line as 75 percent of the German taxi population.

We have affordable options for heart transplant survivors, who have had the surgery more than two years ago.

Years ago open heart surgery was nothing less than a roll of the dice but now they perform miracles from everything from inserting a stent to transplant surgery.

The biggest thing is making sure you can qualify for life insurance with SBLI, so lets cover (in general) what SBLI will and won't insure: SBLI Underwriting Uninsurable medical scenarios with SBLI: • Aids / HIV + status • ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) • Alzheimer's disease or dementia or significant cognitive impairments related to functionality • Cancer diagnosis within last 2 years • Chronic pain treatment, severe, receiving disability, narcotic use • Cirrhosis of the Liver • Congestive heart Failure • COPD / Emphysema or chronic bronchitis - Severe or with current nicotine use • Cystic Fibrosis • Defibrillator use • Depression, severe, recurrent or with multiple in - patient hospitalization history • Diabetes with co-morbidities that include significant cardiac disease, or impairment of renal function or mobility • Heart / Cardiac Disease - multiple vessels diagnosed within 2 years or any past history with current nicotine use • Muscular Dystrophy • Multiple Sclerosis, if symptoms progressing • Organ Transplants, in most scenarios • Quadriplegia • Pulmonary hypertension • Renal failure, Renal insufficiency - severe • Stroke within 1 year • Suicide attempt within 5 years • Surgical repair of heart valves, aneurysms, intracranial tumors, major organs within six months, including gastric bypass Uninsurable non-medical scenarios: • Marijuana use, 4 or more times weekly • Substance abuse / misuse within last 5 years • Criminal activity - any history within the last 10 years • DUI, more than 2 or under age 25 if within 1 year • Unemployed (other than homemakers or retired) with minimal household income or dependent on SSI / disability benefits • Bankruptcy filing within 2 years • Liens / Judgements - outstanding activity that exceeds heart Failure • COPD / Emphysema or chronic bronchitis - Severe or with current nicotine use • Cystic Fibrosis • Defibrillator use • Depression, severe, recurrent or with multiple in - patient hospitalization history • Diabetes with co-morbidities that include significant cardiac disease, or impairment of renal function or mobility • Heart / Cardiac Disease - multiple vessels diagnosed within 2 years or any past history with current nicotine use • Muscular Dystrophy • Multiple Sclerosis, if symptoms progressing • Organ Transplants, in most scenarios • Quadriplegia • Pulmonary hypertension • Renal failure, Renal insufficiency - severe • Stroke within 1 year • Suicide attempt within 5 years • Surgical repair of heart valves, aneurysms, intracranial tumors, major organs within six months, including gastric bypass Uninsurable non-medical scenarios: • Marijuana use, 4 or more times weekly • Substance abuse / misuse within last 5 years • Criminal activity - any history within the last 10 years • DUI, more than 2 or under age 25 if within 1 year • Unemployed (other than homemakers or retired) with minimal household income or dependent on SSI / disability benefits • Bankruptcy filing within 2 years • Liens / Judgements - outstanding activity that exceeds Heart / Cardiac Disease - multiple vessels diagnosed within 2 years or any past history with current nicotine use • Muscular Dystrophy • Multiple Sclerosis, if symptoms progressing • Organ Transplants, in most scenarios • Quadriplegia • Pulmonary hypertension • Renal failure, Renal insufficiency - severe • Stroke within 1 year • Suicide attempt within 5 years • Surgical repair of heart valves, aneurysms, intracranial tumors, major organs within six months, including gastric bypass Uninsurable non-medical scenarios: • Marijuana use, 4 or more times weekly • Substance abuse / misuse within last 5 years • Criminal activity - any history within the last 10 years • DUI, more than 2 or under age 25 if within 1 year • Unemployed (other than homemakers or retired) with minimal household income or dependent on SSI / disability benefits • Bankruptcy filing within 2 years • Liens / Judgements - outstanding activity that exceeds heart valves, aneurysms, intracranial tumors, major organs within six months, including gastric bypass Uninsurable non-medical scenarios: • Marijuana use, 4 or more times weekly • Substance abuse / misuse within last 5 years • Criminal activity - any history within the last 10 years • DUI, more than 2 or under age 25 if within 1 year • Unemployed (other than homemakers or retired) with minimal household income or dependent on SSI / disability benefits • Bankruptcy filing within 2 years • Liens / Judgements - outstanding activity that exceeds $ 50K

And what we learned is that when it comes to organ transplants, (heart, liver, lungs, etc...), there really aren't that many options other than a guaranteed issue life insurance policy.