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a bridge to transplant situation. mr puzzler was in a transplant list already before and the high urchin stages but due to further decline we had implanted assistive eyes and now as you said just buying time to transplant him hopefully very soon so are you just waiting for help right now and if you re looking at a donor heart and other some special requirements you have to watch out for an individual patient it s very important that medicine science and implant type but if you look at the heart in general or the things we said before it it s important that there is no coronary artery disease no birth disease and no myocarditis of the donor heart as well thirteenth to be a healthy organ of course and one of the main risk is that the body rejects the donor hard so as a whole can you cope with that risk is a very important aspect and for this we have luckily immunosuppression since the early night in the eighty s we have immunosuppression of cyprus boren and other
why this is one of the main symptoms that just about the assistive eyes is not a permanent solution you re just buying yourself time to get into a trance but listen of course especially in younger patients it s just a bridge to transplant situation. mr puzzler was in a transplant list already before and the high urchin status but due to further decline we had to implant insisted as of now as you said just buying time to transplant him hopefully very soon so you re just waiting for help right now and if you re looking at a donor heart and there s some special requirements you have to watch out for an individual patient it s very important that it measures inside as an employer type but if you look at it hard in general or the things we said before it it s important that there is no coronary artery disease no birth disease and no my diet is in the donor heart as well they re going to be a healthy organ of course and one of the main reasons is that the body rejects the
unit until they get your biopsy results back, so we ll know this afternoon, decide is it rejection or something else. this is a really scary topic. seeing how scared sierra was, depressed me. she knew she could do it, but she thought she was over, she didn t want to have to do anything again. it makes me feel guilty too. i ve never done anything, and here she is going through so much. it s a great day, baby. lindsay s going in for a transplant, and you re in the best place you can be right now, and they caught it. one day we ll look back at this and laugh our heads off. the binghams know exactly how serious rejection can be. if treatment doesn t work, it could mean sierra will go back on the transplant list. i m sick to my stomach, to be honest, just because she gets the transplant doesn t mean it s over, it s just the beginning.
dr. daniel bernstein has been treating the binghams since 2006. there are standard tests that can be done in 50% of the cases we don t find anything. that doesn t mean there isn t a genetic cause, it just means we haven t yet identified that gene. by 12, sierra had been living with a transplanted heart for half her life. on june 20th, 2012 she was put on the transplant list. to lighten her mood, jason promises to let his beard grow until she got a new heart. i don t care how long it takes, as long as she hangs around, i m hanging around. the average wait is three months, doctors warned the binghams it could be much longer. the good and the bad news is that the supply of donors is infrequent. and we could get one tomorrow, and it could take six more months to get her a donor. just a week and a half after