heart-lung transplant

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meaningsoftransplant

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transplant
noun
uk
/trænˈsplɑːnt/us
/trænˈsplænt/
a medical operation in which a new organ is put into ...
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(Definition oftransplantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Of 34 operative survivors, 10 were reoperated (4 baffle dysfunction, 3 baffle leaks, 1 valvular prosthesis, 3 pacemakers and 1heart-lungtransplant).
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Enterocytozoon bieneusi as a cause of chronic diarrhea in aheart-lungtransplantrecipient who was sero-negative for human immunodeficiency virus.
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Medical management was continued with long term plans for aheart-lungtransplant.
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Aheart-lungtransplantwould be the only option.
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More than 500 transplants have taken place, including double lung and heart-lung transplants.
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We did no heart-lung transplants at the beginning of 1987.
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The unit looks after adult cardiac and thoracic surgical patients and adult patients who are recovering from heart or heart-lung transplants.
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It is only in the case of heart-lung transplants that there is some stabilisation and perhaps a smaller reduction in the waiting list.
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Even today, those children will survive to young adulthood only with heart-lung transplants.
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Finally, there were three heart transplants in 1979—in the whole year—but 176 in 1986, as well as 51 heart-lung transplants.
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In 1989, there were 295 liver transplants and 94 heart-lung transplants.
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In 1948 there were no hip or knee replacements, no coronary artery bypasses and no heart or heart-lung transplants.
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The unit has performed 44 double lung transplants, 92 single lung transplants, 326 heart transplants, and 38 heart-lung transplants—a total of more than 500 transplant operations.
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