Heart Transplant Center - Chino, CA
Chino Cardiothoracic Surgeon Doctors for Heart TransplantType of Physician: Cardiothoracic Surgeon What is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon? A certification by the Board of Thoracic Surgery; practitioners are skilled in patient care before, during and after surgery, and the critical care of patients with pathologic conditions within the chest. The management of the airway and injuries of the chest is within the scope of the specialty. Specialty: Cardiothoracic Surgery Common Name: Chest Surgeon Cardiothoracic Surgeon Doctors in Chino * Cardiac Surgery Group  Cardiac Surgery Group  Michael Neall Wood MD  Nandkumar V Dandekar MD  Chelvapilla V Gunupati MD  Carlos DelCampo MD  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Richard A Ott MD FACS  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Syam P Vunnamadala MD  Peter A Wawro MD  City of Hope National Medical Center Surgery  City of Hope National Medical Center Surgery  Klieman & Spiwak Surgical Associates  Aziz A Khan MD  Naveen Dhar MD  Sridhara K Iyengar MD  Vascular & General Surgery Assoc  Guy G Lemire MD  Loma Linda International Heart Institute  Loma Linda International Heart Institute  Loma Linda International Heart Institute  Loma Linda International Heart Institute  Inland Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates  Inland Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates  Tri-City Bariatric Specialties  Inland Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates  Santosh Mohanty MD  Inland Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates  Shigeru Chino MD  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Nancy B Way MD  USC Cardiothoracic Surgery  Department of Thoracic Surgery  USC Cardiothoracic Surgery  USC Cardiothoracic Surgery  USC Cardiothoracic Surgery  Steven R DeMeester MD  Department of Thoracic Surgery  Department of Thoracic Surgery  USC Cardiothoracic Surgery  Department of Thoracic Surgery  USC Cardiothoracic Surgery  Jose L Rivas MD  Robert L Shuman MD  The Bethencourt Group  The Bethencourt Group  Humberto Ravelo MD  TCS Medical Group Inc  TCS Medical Group Inc  Frank A Versteeg MD  Frank A Versteeg MD  Advanced Cardiothoracic Surgery  Advanced Cardiothoracic Surgery  Advanced Cardiothoracic Surgery  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery  Vahe Yacoubian MD  Pacific Cardiothoracic Surgery Group  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Cardiothoracic Surgery  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Cardiothoracic Surgery  Charles B Witt Jr. MD  Raymond H Schaerf MD  James D Hall & John Stoneburner MDs  Arun K Mittal MD  James D Hall & John Stoneburner MDs  Alexander Stein MD  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cardio-Thoracic Surgery  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cardio-Thoracic Surgery  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cardio-Thoracic Surgery  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cardio-Thoracic Surgery  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cardio-Thoracic Surgery  Beverly Hills Institute of Bariatric & Obesity Surgery  Jehan Z Mir MD  The Center for Cholesterol Management  California Heart & Lung Surgery Center  Saint John's Cardiothoracic Surgery  Saint John's Cardiothoracic Surgery  Saint John's Cardiothoracic Surgery  California Center For Cardiothoracic Surgery  California Center For Cardiothoracic Surgery  Mehdi Fakhrai MD  Tom Mahendra MD  Frank M Yusuf MD  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery  John A Young MD  Jeffrey M Rosenburg MD  Reza G Farsad MD  Comprehensive Cancer Center  The International Heart & Lung Institute  Cardiothoracic Surgeons  Scripps Clinic Carmel Valley Thoracic Surgery  Scripps Clinic Cardiothoracic Surgery  Scripps Clinic Cardiothoracic Surgery Chino, CaliforniaUpcoming Local Events2012-06-09
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Heart TransplantRead the Heart Transplant article » Introduction to heart transplantThe idea of replacing a bad organ with a good one has been documented in ancient mythology. The first real organ transplants were probably skin grafts that may have been done in India as early as the second century B.C. The first heart transplant in any animal is credited to Vladimer Demikhov. Working in Moscow in 1946, Demikhov switched the hearts between two dogs. The dogs survived the surgery. The first heart transplant in human beings was done in South Africa in 1967 by Dr. Christiaan Barnard; the patient only lived 18 days. Most of the research that led to successful heart transplantation took place in the United States at Stanford University under the leadership of Dr. Norman Shumway. Once Stanford started reporting better results, other centers started doing heart transplants. However, successful transplantation of a human heart was not ready for widespread clinical application until medications were developed to prevent the recipient from "rejecting" the donor heart. This happened in 1983 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a drug called cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral). Before the advent of cyclosporine, overall results of heart transplant were not very good. What is a heart transplant?Believe it or not, heart transplantation is a relatively simple operation for a cardiac surgeon. In fact, the procedure actually consists of three operations. The first operation is harvesting the heart from the donor. The donor is usually an unfortunate person who has suffered irreversible brain injury, called "brain death". Very often these are patients who have had major trauma to the head, for example, in an automobile accident. The victim's organs, other than the brain, are working well with the help of medications and other "life support" that may include a respirator or other devices... Recommended Reading Related to Heart TransplantShock facts
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