The Smiths are pursuing a heart transplant now ... “Still a pretty high priority,” Michelle said. “1As come ahead of that person.” Landon has been status 2 for the past year.

The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.

Under revised standards, top priority would be given to those under 60 years of age who are expected to live only for a month or less without a transplant ... For heart transplants, the group ...

Hypertension frequently develops following organ transplantation, partly as a consequence of ciclosporin treatment. Since hypertension is more common in heart transplant patients than in liver or ...

In the case of pediatric heart transplantation, with such high wait-list mortality ... some very sick children were categorized as priority 2 while others who were not as sick had a 1A status ...

Meier is nearly a year out of a heart transplant surgery at Corewell Health ... I gotta make everybody proud of me now,” Meier said. A top priority for Meier is her hobby, the Grand Rapids ...