Heart transplants
By: by Nancy Hoffman.
Series: Great medical discoveries
Publisher: Lucent Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Heart -- Transplantation -- Juvenile literature.; Heart -- Transplantation.; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Discusses the history of man's knowledge of the heart, early heart surgery, and the results, possible complications, costs, and future of heart transplants.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-122) and index.
Table of contents: title: To hold and heal a human heart; title: Open-heart surgery; title: The first transplant; title: Increasing transplant life expectancy; title: The artificial heart; title: Now and the future.