Heart Transplant Center - Freeport, NY
Freeport 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 Freeport * Nassau University Medical Center Surgery  Robert Rubin MD  Long Island Thoracic Surgery  Long Island Thoracic Surgery  Winthrop Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery PC  Winthrop Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery PC  Winthrop Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery PC  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  Chanchal K Saha MD  Francesco Tenti MD  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  Anastasios J Pelias MD  Thoracic Surgical PC  Thoracic Surgical PC  Robert B Swersky MD  South Shore Thoracic & Vascular  TJH Medical Services PC  Ahamed Moideen MD  Fouad E Lajam MD  Queens-Long Island Medical Group PC  Dimitri Pyrros MD  Hyman Miller MD  Steven M Keller MD  Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Surgery  Chukuma Okadigwe MD  NY Presbyterian Hospital  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  Nasser Altorki MD  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  Andrew J Franzone MD  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  O Wayne Ison MD  Anukware Ketosugbo MD  Karl H Krieger MD  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  Harlem Medical Associates  JJ Peters Bronx VA Medical Center  Daniel J Krellenstein MD  Mt Sinai Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  JJ Peters Bronx VA Medical Center  Mt Sinai Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  Arthur D Boyd MD  Skirball Institute  CPMC Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery  CPMC Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery  CPMC Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  Henry M Spotnitz MD  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Warren D Widmann MD  Beth Israel Hospital Cardiac Surgery Division  Beth Israel Hospital Cardiac Surgery Division  Private Doctors Office  Island Surgical Vascular Group  Island Surgical Vascular Group  Streisand & Berman MDs  Streisand & Berman MDs  Maimonides Medical Center Surgery  Steven D Herman MD  Maimonides Medical Center Surgery  New York Cardiothoracic Surgeons PC  Ann M Rogers MD  Cliff P Connery MD  Cardiothoracic Surgery  Charles Lapunzina MD  Gregory R Brevetti MD & Mark H Genovesi MD  Gregory R Brevetti MD & Mark H Genovesi MD  Sultan Mohiuddin MD  NY Cardiothoracic Group  NY Cardiothoracic Group  NY Cardiothoracic Group  Stony Brook Lung Cancer Evaluation Ctr  Stony Brook Surgical Associates PC  Stony Brook Surgical Associates PC  Stony Brook Surgical Associates PC  Paul Cathcart MD  Richard J Dranitzke MD Freeport, New YorkUpcoming Local Events2012-06-02
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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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