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003003. [ edit on Wikidata] A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed. As of 2018, the most common procedure is to take a functioning heart, with or without both lungs ...
Blue Shield of California is a mutual benefit corporation and health plan [ 6 ][ 7 ] founded in 1939 by the California Medical Association. It is based in Oakland, California, and serves 4.5 million health plan members and more than 65,000 physicians across the state. Blue Shield of California was founded as a not-for-profit organization.
Jack Greene Copeland (born 1942) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, who has established procedures in heart transplantation including repeat heart transplantation, the implantation of total artificial hearts (TAH) to bridge the time to heart transplant, innovations in left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and the technique of "piggybacking" a second heart (heterotopic heart transplant) in ...
Maria Alejandra Cardona/Miami Herald File. While Jackson Health System has not said why it abruptly suspended its adult heart transplant program on Monday, staffing issues, concerns about patient ...
Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving transplant patient.
Website. www .bcbs .com. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, also known as BCBS, BCBSA, or The Blues, is a United States -based federation with 34 independent and locally-operated BCBSA companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 115 million people as of 2022. [ 2][ 3] It was formed in 1982 from the merger of its ...
A Virginia man became the third HIV-positive person in the U.S. to donate his heart, and the first for the hospital where the surgery was performed. Zack Pate of Hampton Roads recently died by ...
4. Player stats at PFR. Executive profile at PFR. Jerome Johnson Richardson Sr. (July 18, 1936 – March 1, 2023) was an American businessman, football player, and owner in the National Football League (NFL). A native of Spring Hope, North Carolina, he played college football for the Wofford Terriers and was twice a Little All-America selection.