Heart Transplant Center - Yonkers, NY
Yonkers 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 Yonkers * Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Surgery  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  Henry M Spotnitz MD  Steven M Keller MD  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  CPMC Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Thoracic Surgery  CPMC Warren D Widmann MD  Hyman Miller MD  Harlem Medical Associates  Private Doctors Office  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  Streisand & Berman MDs  Streisand & Berman MDs  Fouad E Lajam MD  Andrew J Franzone MD  NY Cardiothoracic Group  NY Cardiothoracic Group  NY Cardiothoracic Group  NY Presbyterian Hospital  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  Nasser Altorki MD  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  O Wayne Ison MD  Karl H Krieger MD  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  MSKCC Thoracic Surgery  Cliff P Connery MD  Ann M Rogers MD  Queens-Long Island Medical Group PC  TJH Medical Services PC  Ahamed Moideen MD  Arthur D Boyd MD  Skirball Institute  Beth Israel Hospital Cardiac Surgery Division  Beth Israel Hospital Cardiac Surgery Division  Cardiothoracic Surgery  Thoracic Surgical PC  Thoracic Surgical PC  Robert B Swersky MD  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  Steven D Herman MD  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Cardiothoracic Surgery PC  Anukware Ketosugbo MD  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  Chukuma Okadigwe MD  North Shore University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery  Maimonides Medical Center Surgery  Maimonides Medical Center Surgery  New York Cardiothoracic Surgeons PC  Charles Lapunzina MD  Paul Cathcart MD  Winthrop Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery PC  Winthrop Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery PC  Winthrop Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery PC  Gregory R Brevetti MD & Mark H Genovesi MD  Gregory R Brevetti MD & Mark H Genovesi MD  Long Island Thoracic Surgery  Long Island Thoracic Surgery  South Shore Thoracic & Vascular  Anastasios J Pelias MD  Nassau University Medical Center Surgery  Robert Rubin MD  Chanchal K Saha MD  Francesco Tenti MD  Dimitri Pyrros MD  Rockland Thoracic & Vascular Associates PC  Sultan Mohiuddin MD  Island Surgical Vascular Group  Island Surgical Vascular Group  William E Bollengier MD  Stony Brook Lung Cancer Evaluation Ctr  Stony Brook Surgical Associates PC Yonkers, 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 TransplantMyocardial Biopsy IntroductionA heart biopsy, also called myocardial biopsy or cardiac biopsy, is an invasive procedure to detect heart disease that involves using a bioptome (a small catheter with a grasping device on the end) to obtain a small piece of heart muscle tissue that is sent to a laboratory for analysis. Why Do I Need a Myocardial Biopsy?Your doctor uses myocardial biopsy to:
How Should I Prepare for a Heart Biopsy?To prepare yourself for a heart biopsy you should know these things:
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