Sentence examples for donated heart from inspiring English sources

The medications he takes to accommodate the donated heart can be toxic to his other organs.

Permanent assist pumps would also eliminate the risks of the immune-suppressing drugs that transplant recipients need to prevent rejection of the donated heart.

Three years ago, too weak from heart failure even to dress herself and too overweight to receive a donated heart, she signed what she calls "my death warrant," an order for doctors not to revive her if her heart gave out.

Perhaps it's etched on my memory because one of my relatives could have donated heart valves after death but their closest relatives were too unsure and afraid; or maybe it's because another relative died waiting for a liver that never came.

Mr. Penn plays a sickly math professor in "21 Grams," but from what audiences can see of him lying face-down in bed, after a sex scene with Naomi Watts (playing the wife of the man whose donated heart he received), his body has stood up quite well.

Sir Magdi Yacoub, a professor of cardiac surgery at Imperial College London, has worked on ways to tackle the shortage of donated hearts for transplant for more than a decade.

Donated hearts for lifesaving transplants are scarce, but now researchers may have hit upon a way to generate the blood-pumping organs in the lab--at least in rats.

(They also donated his heart, but that baby died).

Teddy, who died 100 minutes after birth earlier this year, also suffered from anencephaly and donated his heart valves and kidneys.

In the second act, which takes place in an unidentified foreign country, he/she confronts the wife of the dying man, Hassam, who donated his heart so the guide could live.

In story after story, Hegi pulls up the shades on a rich diversity of lives -- a Jesuit having second thoughts about his vocation, a man who is obsessed with the dead woman who donated her heart to him, a girl who watches her father fall in love with a married woman -- with a mature, confident voice.