Heart Transplantation

Latest News
• Babies Can Survive Mismatched Heart Transplant (03/15/2001, Reuters)

From the National Institutes of Health
• Facts About Heart and Heart-Lung Transplants (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

General/Overviews

• Heart Transplantation Information (United Network for Organ Sharing)
• Heart/Lung Transplantation Information (United Network for Organ Sharing)
• Transplant 101: Frequently Asked Questions (United Network for Organ Sharing)

Anatomy/Physiology

• Heart : How It Works (American Heart Association)

Disease Management

• Life after Transplant (United Network for Organ Sharing)

Rehabilitation

• Exercise Improves Heart Transplant Recovery (Center for Cardiovascular Education, Inc.)

Research

• Immune Tolerance: Improving Transplantation Success (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Transplantation: Saving Lives, Exploring New Frontiers (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

• Financing Your Transplant (United Network for Organ Sharing)
• Getting on the List: You Need a Transplant, What's Next? (United Network for Organ Sharing)
• Organ Donation (American Heart Association)
• Organ Sharing in America (United Network for Organ Sharing)
• Which Hospital Is Best for You (United Network for Organ Sharing)

Treatment

• Types of Perfusion (American Society of Extra-Corporeal Technology)

Dictionaries/Glossaries

• Glossary of Terms and Acronym Expansions for Perfusion Technology, Open Heart Surgery and Cardiology (American Society of Extra-Corporeal Technology)
• Transplant 101: Glossary (United Network for Organ Sharing)

Directories

• List of Medicare Approved Heart Transplant Centers (Health Care Financing Administration)
• Transplantation Organizations (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Law and Policy

• Improving the Nation's Organ Transplantation System (Health Resources and Services Administration) - links to PDF file
• Medicare Transplant Regulations (Health Care Financing Administration)
• Organ Distribution: Allocation of Thoracic Organs (United Network for Organ Sharing)
• Public Affairs & Legislative Update (Health Resources and Services Administration)

Organizations

• American Heart Association
• Division of Transplantation (Health Resources and Services Administration)
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• TransWeb
• United Network for Organ Sharing

Statistics

• Current U.S. Facts (Health Resources and Services Administration)
• Heart Transplants and Statistics (American Heart Association)
• U.S. Facts about Transplantation (United Network for Organ Sharing)