Heart Transplant facts
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WALL-E (the Pixar film,) is dedicated to Justin Wright. Justin was 12 when he had a heart transplant and his make-a-wish was to visit Pixar. He survived the transplant and later became an animator at Pixar. He died of a massive heart attack 3 months before its release.
how heart transplant is done?
In 1986, a organ transplant aircraft broke down in Fargo resulting in the governor summoning an F-4 Phantom to transport a heart to California for a recipient.
What is the criteria for a heart transplant?
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what heart transplant do?
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During surgery on a 60-year-old woman, Italian doctors discovered one of the first heart prostheses - an artificial mitral valve - which was implanted almost 50 years ago when the patient was 10, by Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant
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A man received a heart transplant from a donor who committed suicide. The recipient married the widow of the donor and committed suicide 12 years after the transplant.
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The patient in the National Geographic best picture of 1987 depicting the famous 23hrs heart transplantation which shows the Doctor monitoring his vitals while the assistant rests in the corner not only survived but outlived the doctor.
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In 1984, a 1-year-old received a heart transplant from a baboon but ended up dying 21 days later due to rejection. When questioned with why a baboon and not a primate more closely related to humans, the surgeon said he didn't believe in evolution.
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A teen needing a heart transplant was rejected in part because of his history of juvenile detention. A media outcry resulted in his getting a new heart, and later he died fleeing after a carjacking/burglary/shooting spree.
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A man once received a heart transplant from a suicide victim, married the donor's widow, then killed himself four years later in the same manner as the donor.
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Heart transplant recipients often report changes in temperament or aesthetic taste which parallel traits of their donor, going as far as pursuing the same hobbies as and adopting the donor's musical tastes.
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All Singaporeans over 21 years old are organ donors by default, allowing for the kidneys, heart, liver and corneas to be transplanted in the event of death from any cause. Individuals who do not wish to be donors must actively opt out, and few do: 97% of its citizens are organ donors.
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About Sonny Graham, who received a heart transplant from a suicide victim, then married the donor's widow, then committed suicide in similar circumstances.
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Sometimes a heart transplant involves keeping the original so that the recipient can have two beating hearts in their chest
Why heart transplant is done?
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About Dr. Leonard Baily, who in 1984 transplanted a baboon heart into a dying infant known as Baby Fae. Baby Fae lived for another three weeks after the procedure.
Sometimes in a heart transplantation, the original heart is left in to support the donor heart, creating a double heart. - source
Dr. Denton Cooley, who did both the first heart transplant in the US and first artificial heart implant in US, once put a sheep's heart in a dying patient. It didn't work. - source
A teen needing a heart transplant was rejected in part because of his history of juvenile detention. A media outcry resulted in his getting a new heart, and later he died fleeing after a carjacking/burglary/shooting spree.
The man who received Poland's first heart transplant ,Tadeusz Żytkiewicz, is still alive today and has outlived the man who gave him his new heart. - source
When heart transplant is needed?
About the organ transplant pioneer, Vladimir Demikhov, who created heart, lung, liver, and artificial heart transplant methods still used today. Though he's infamous for successfully grafting heads of dogs on to other dogs.
How heart transplants work?
In 2011 Tyson Smith received a heterotropic heart transplantation when surgeons attached a donor heart to his old failing heart. Removing the old heart and replacing it with a new heart would have caused the new heart to fail, but together the two hearts share the work and get the job done.
Ashton Kutcher nearly commit suicide at age 13 to save the life of his brother who needed a heart transplant
One of the rarest medical procedures available is the heart and lung transplant. Both lungs as well as the heart are replaced, this procedure was first preformed in 1981 by Bruce Reitz at Stanford Hospital.
The reason tendon transplants don't require anti rejection drugs (like hearts and other large organs do) is because the tendons have been chemically treated to remove "extracellular markers" that cause rejection.
There is a procedure known as a 'Piggyback Heart Transplant' where the donor heart is linked to the existing heart, essentially leaving the patient functioning with two hearts.
