http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog Factual information for potential organ donors as well as personal accounts about organ transplantation. Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:32:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon6.ico http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/heart/a-new-heart-provides-a-new-chance-for-aaliyah-1018/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/heart/a-new-heart-provides-a-new-chance-for-aaliyah-1018/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:31:40 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=1018 By: Joe Goldeen Record Staff Writer December 25, 2009 STOCKTON – Christmas came early this year for little Aaliyah Soleil Morris, who received a transplanted heart March 31 at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto. She turned 2 on Nov. 9. For her grandparents, who have custody of Aaliyah, today marks “a [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/heart/a-new-heart-provides-a-new-chance-for-aaliyah-1018/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/heart/worlds-1st-total-artificial-heart-to-dual-heart-liver-transplant-performed-at-cleveland-clinic-785/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/heart/worlds-1st-total-artificial-heart-to-dual-heart-liver-transplant-performed-at-cleveland-clinic-785/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:36:47 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=785 TUCSON, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SynCardia Systems, Inc. (www.syncardia.com), manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, announced today that Cleveland Clinic has performed the world’s first Total Artificial Heart to dual heart and liver transplant. “Cleveland Clinic has made medical history with their use of the Total Artificial Heart to bridge a very ill patient to [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/heart/worlds-1st-total-artificial-heart-to-dual-heart-liver-transplant-performed-at-cleveland-clinic-785/feed/ 1