Heart Transplant Center - Paramount, CA
Paramount 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 Paramount * Klieman & Spiwak Surgical Associates  The Bethencourt Group  The Bethencourt Group  Humberto Ravelo MD  Robert L Shuman MD  TCS Medical Group Inc  TCS Medical Group Inc  Tri-City Bariatric Specialties  Jose L Rivas MD  Vascular & General Surgery Assoc  Guy G Lemire MD  Aziz A Khan 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  Advanced Cardiothoracic Surgery  Advanced Cardiothoracic Surgery  Advanced Cardiothoracic Surgery  Arun K Mittal MD  James D Hall & John Stoneburner MDs  James D Hall & John Stoneburner MDs  Pacific Cardiothoracic Surgery Group  Syam P Vunnamadala MD  Carlos DelCampo MD  Jehan Z Mir MD  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Cardiothoracic Surgery  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Cardiothoracic Surgery  Santosh Mohanty MD  Charles B Witt Jr. MD  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery  Naveen Dhar MD  Frank A Versteeg MD  Frank A Versteeg MD  Sridhara K Iyengar MD  Vahe Yacoubian MD  Alexander Stein MD  Beverly Hills Institute of Bariatric & Obesity 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  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cardio-Thoracic Surgery  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Richard A Ott MD FACS  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons  City of Hope National Medical Center Surgery  City of Hope National Medical Center Surgery  Raymond H Schaerf MD  The Center for Cholesterol Management  Nandkumar V Dandekar MD  California Heart & Lung Surgery Center  Nancy B Way MD  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Joyo Raney & Zusman MDs  Saint John's Cardiothoracic Surgery  Saint John's Cardiothoracic Surgery  Saint John's Cardiothoracic Surgery  Peter A Wawro MD  Chelvapilla V Gunupati MD  California Center For Cardiothoracic Surgery  California Center For Cardiothoracic Surgery  Cardiac Surgery Group  Cardiac Surgery Group  Mehdi Fakhrai MD  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery  Michael Neall Wood MD  Shigeru Chino MD  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons of Ventura County APC  Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons of Ventura County APC  Tom Mahendra MD  Frank M Yusuf 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  Inland Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates  Inland Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates  Witold S Niesluchowski MD  John A Young MD  California Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons  California Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons  California Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons  Jeffrey M Rosenburg MD  Scripps Clinic Carmel Valley Thoracic Surgery Paramount, CaliforniaUpcoming Local Events2012-06-10
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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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