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| | Healthopedia.com - Heart and Lung Transplant (Heart-Lung Transplant) |
 | | A heart and lung transplant is a surgical procedure in which a person's poorly functioning heart and lungs are replaced with those a person who has died and donated their organs. | | | The replacement heart and lungs are put into the chest and sewn into place. | | | Once the person's heart is working again to pump the blood, the surgeon checks for any bleeding. |
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http://www.healthopedia.com/heart-and-lung-transplant
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| | Heart-lung transplant - definition of Heart-lung transplant in Encyclopedia |
| | Congenital problems (defects present at birth) affecting the heart and lungs (48%) | | | Once the donor organs are functioning normally, the heart-lung machine is withdrawn, and the chest is closed. | | | Capable of following a post-op regiment of exercise and immunosuppressant drugs |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Heart-lung_transplant
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Heart-and-lung transplant |
| | Heart-and-lung transplant is surgery to replace a diseased heart and lungs with a healthy heart and lungs from a human donor. | | | As with all major organ transplants, the problems are finding a donor, preventing rejection, and the cost of the surgery and medications. | | | A heart-lung bypass machine takes over the circulating of the blood, and maintains oxygen levels to the body. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003004.htm
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