Heart device offers hope to patients waiting for transplants
By Daily Bruin Staff
April 7, 1998 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 8, 1998
Heart device offers hope to patients waiting for transplants
RESEARCH: Technology allows organs of those on waitlist to
repair damage
By Kathryn Combs
Daily Bruin Staff
Over 3,500 Americans are wait listed for heart transplants each
year and only two-thirds of these patients receive desperately
needed transplants. While the other third are forced to wait until
a suitable donor heart becomes available.
Many of these patients do not live to see a successful
transplant, according to Dr. Michelle Hamilton
