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Treatments List

Treatments could include:
  • Organ Transplantation

Treatments Overview Articles

Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis symptoms often resolve on their own gradually without treatment. Severely affected patients may need treatment with corticosteroids. Therapy may continue for one or two years. Some of the most severely affected patients may require lif...
Source:ADAM
Date:March 1, 2007
Sarcoidosis
Many cases of sarcoidosis resolve without treatment. If treatment is needed, the most effective one for sarcoidosis is the administration of steroid medications. These medications work to decrease inflammation throughout the body. The long-term us...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Specific Treatments Articles

Heart transplant
Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 25, 2007
Heart Transplantation
Heart transplantation, also called cardiac transplantation, is the replacement of a patient ' s diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart. Purpose Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Heart Transplantation
Heart transplantation, also called cardiac transplantation, is the replacement of a patient ' s diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart. Purpose Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Liver transplant
Liver transplant is surgery to replace a diseased liver with a healthy liver.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 27, 2008
Liver Transplantation
Liver transplantation is a surgery that removes a diseased liver and replaces it with a healthy donor liver. Purpose A liver transplant is needed when the liver ' s function is reduced to the point that the life of the patient is threatened.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Liver Transplantation
Liver transplantation is a surgery that removes a diseased liver and replace it with a healthy donor liver. Purpose The liver is the body ' s principle chemical factory.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Lung transplant
Lung transplant is surgery to replace one or both diseased lungs with healthy lungs from a human donor.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 18, 2008
Lung Transplantation
Lung transplantation involves removal of one or both diseased lungs from a patient and the replacement National Transplant Waiting List By Organ Type (June 2000) Organ Needed Number Waiting Kidney 48,349 Liver 15,987 Heart 4,139 Lung 3,695 Kidney-Pancreas 2,437 Pancreas 942 Heart-Lung 212 Intestine 137 of the lungs with healthy organs from a donor. Lung transplantation may refer to single, double, or even heart-lung transplantation.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Lung Transplantation
Lung transplantation involves removal of one or both diseased lungs from a patient and the replacement of the lungs with healthy organs from a donor. Lung transplantation may refer to single, double, or even heart-lung transplantation .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
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