Heart Transplanted Twice
Heart gives two different people chance at life
This article shows why organ donation is so important. There are not enough organs available for the growing need for those on the long list. I recurred a kidney in 2003 after mine failed.
I am pleading for my readers to place on your Drivers license that you want to bean or garn donor and tell your friends and familyI write $ down in a burning will. I have done all three; how could I be selfish now?
From the article:
“Two months ago at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, surgeons removed a transplanted heart from a patient who had died and re-transplanted it in another recipient.
“To my knowledge, this is the first time this has been done with a transplanted heart,” Dr. Lawrence S. C. Czer, medical director of the center’s heart transplant program, told Reuters. “Even with other organs, repeat transplantation is very rare.”
The second patient was a 45-year-old man with noncompaction syndrome, a rare cardiac condition in which the heart assumes a sponge-like appearance. The disease is progressive, and the man’s heart became more and more disabled despite the best medical therapy.
According to Czer, the patient first went on the waiting list for a heart transplant in 2002 but he improved and came off the list for several years. About a year ago, his condition worsened and again he was placed on the list.”
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