31. Doctors decided to try quadruple-bypass surgery as a last-shot alternative to a heart transplant. 32. Doctors hope the smaller pumps will someday serve as a permanent alternative to heart transplants. 33. Earlier this year, a team of medical researchers showed they could prevent rats rejecting a mouse heart transplant by giving them a trickle of the gas to breathe. 34. Doctors found his liver was damaged too badly to sustain a heart transplant. 35. Each patient receiving the device adds to the number of people on the waiting list for heart transplants. 36. Dr. Jorge Garcia, a well-known U.S.-based cardiologist who performed the first heart transplant in the Philippines, headed the surgical team. 37. Even a heart transplant. 38. Everything is fine, he said, and forget what those three cardiologists told him last year about needing a heart transplant. 39. FDA rules require the patients to live in the hospital until they receive heart transplants. 40. Following a heart transplant, a television host finds her life enriched -- and threatened. |