- heart-lung transplant
- operation in which a defective heart and lungs are replaced by healthy ones
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
heart-lung transplant
Look at other dictionaries:
Heart–lung transplant — Intervention ICD 9 CM 33.6 MeSH … Wikipedia
Heart-lung transplant — Interventions infobox Name = PAGENAME Caption = ICD10 = ICD9 = 33.6 MeshID = D016041 OtherCodes = A heart lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors, it… … Wikipedia
heart-lung transplant — /ˌhat lʌŋ ˈtrænsplænt/ (say .haht lung transplant) noun a transplant operation in which two organs, the heart and the lungs, are transplanted together …
Lung transplantation — Intervention ICD 9 CM 33.5 MeSH … Wikipedia
Transplant rejection — Classification and external resources Micrograph showing lung transplant rejection. Lung biopsy. H E stain. ICD … Wikipedia
Heart transplantation — or cardiac transplantation, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor… … Wikipedia
transplant — transplantable, adj. transplantation, n. transplanter, n. v. /trans plant , plahnt /; n. /trans plant , plahnt /, v.t. 1. to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another. 2. Surg. to transfer (an organ, tissue, etc.) from one part of… … Universalium
Heart transplant — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… … Medical dictionary
Transplant, heart — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… … Medical dictionary
Organ transplant — An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient s own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient s damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site … Wikipedia
