Heart Disease & Transplant Online Resources

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Heart Disease and Transplantation

• Consumer and Patient Education MaterialsOpens new window (American Heart Association)


• What is Coronary Heart Disease?Opens new window (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)


• Data for U.S. Heart Transplants (United Network for Organ Sharing)
• Heart and Circulation TopicsOpens new window from the National Library of Medicine


• Transplant Living Web siteOpens new window (United Network for Organ Sharing)

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Organ Sharing Networks & Governmental Agencies

• UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing - USAOpens new windowUnited Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, private, not-for-profit, membership corporation, administers the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the U.S. Scientific Registry on Organ Transplantation under contracts with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

International Network:

• Eurotransplant Foundation (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Germany and Austria)Opens new window


• Japan Network for Organ SharingOpens new window

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Organizations

• American Heart AssociationOpens new window
• Congenital Heart Information NetworkOpens new window
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health PromotionOpens new window
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteOpens new window


• California Transplant Donor Network
  1611 Telegraph Ave., Ste. 600
  Oakland, CA 94612-2149
  www.ctdn.orgOpens new window


• National Transplant Assistance Fund
  6 Bryn Mawr Avenue
  P.O.Box 258
  Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
  (800) 642-8399 / (610) 527-5056(610) 527-5210 FAX
  www.transplantfund.orgOpens new window
• North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO)
  P.O. Box 15384
  Lenexa, KS 66215
  (913) 492-3600


• Transplant Recipients International Organization (TRIO)
  1000 16th Street, NW, Suite 602
  Washington, DC 20036-5705
  (800) TRIO-386 / (202) 293-0980
  (202) 293-0973 FAX
  www.trioweb.orgOpens new window


• TransWeb The Northern Brewery Bldg.
  1327 Jones Dr., Suite 105
  Ann Arbor, MI 48105 U.S.A.
  (734) 998-7314
  (743) 998-6710 FAX
  http://www.transweb.orgOpens new window
• United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
  1100 Boulders Parkway, Suite 500
  P.O.Box 13770
  Richmond, VA 23225
  (804) 330-8500
  www.unos.orgOpens new window

Other Professional Organizations

• American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)Opens new window
• American Society of Transplant SurgeonsOpens new window

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Espanol/Spanish

• Hojas Informativas (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - links to PDF file. bilingual text.Opens new window

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