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# Heart Transplant

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# Transplants
Harris wants to bring in opt-out organ donation system next year
Health Minister Simon Harris today launched a six-week public consultation on an opt-out organ donation scheme.
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Aug 28th 2017, 4:04 PM
# gavin coyne
Tributes paid after young Dublin boy dies while waiting for heart transplant
Gavin Coyne passed away yesterday while awaiting surgery in Freeman Hospital Newcastle.
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Feb 21st 2017, 10:07 PM
# Organ Donation
Video shows emotional moment teen awakes after surviving heart transplant
Trevor Sullivan’s life was saved after he received a donor heart.
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Jan 26th 2016, 11:00 AM
# Organs
"Disappointing year" for organ donations - just 63 in the whole of 2014
But there were a record number of heart transplants.
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Jan 2nd 2015, 6:45 PM
# World First
Transplants using 'dead hearts' have been performed in Australia
So far three people have received hearts in this way.
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Oct 25th 2014, 4:54 PM
# biomaterials
French doctors have carried out a second artificial heart transplant
The operation took place last month, and is said to have gone well.
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Sep 8th 2014, 2:19 PM
# Organ Donation
Family's joy as heart transplant dad could be home for Christmas
Shane O’Connell is currently in intensive care, and it is hoped he will get to be back in Kerry for Christmas Day.
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Nov 21st 2013, 7:45 AM
# Organ Donation
Heart transplant gives mother a new life
Karen McDermott (38), a mother of two from Clonakilty, received a new heart in August 2012. This week is organ donation week.
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Apr 5th 2013, 7:15 AM
# Circle of Life
Woman becomes world's first to give birth after heart transplant
The creation of extra blood, and the drugs needed to stop a transplant being rejected, usually make it impossible.
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Jan 30th 2013, 6:45 AM
Voices
Extract: How it feels to wait for a heart transplant
John Healy, maitre d of RTÉ’s The Restaurant, recalls the stress of waiting for his life-saving heart transplant operation.
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Jan 6th 2013, 7:30 PM
# What the...
Taiwanese animators let you watch Dick Cheney's heart transplant
…except the Taiwanese version also involves a Frankenstein’s Monster, a zombie rabbit, and Darth Vader. Riiiight.
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Mar 26th 2012, 7:19 PM
# Transplant
Former US vice president Dick Cheney receives heart transplant
The former vice president of the United States has had a long history of heart problems and had been on the transplant list for 20 months.
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Mar 25th 2012, 12:40 PM
# whoops
Medics drop heart being rushed for transplant
After exiting a helicopter carrying the heart for transplant, a medic stumbled and the plastic-wrapped heart tumbled out of a cooler onto the street.
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Jan 12th 2012, 9:34 AM
# Medical firsts
Heart in a bag… and 7 other medical firsts
Hand and face transplants, test tube babies and plastic hearts – a look at some of the world’s medical firsts…
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Aug 4th 2011, 7:00 AM
# US
Dick Cheney undecided on heart transplant option
Former US vice president says his health has improved since he was diagnosed with end-stage heart failure.
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May 8th 2011, 6:09 PM
# Organ Donation
Seventy per cent of donor hearts exported in 2010
Poor donation rates have contributed to seven out of ten organs harvested in Ireland being sent to other countries last year as they were incompatible with patients awaiting transplants here.
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Apr 3rd 2011, 12:51 PM