Heart transplantation

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Broader Terms

cardiovascular transplantation, thoracic surgery

Narrower Terms

heart valve transplantation

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Heart Transplantation Heart transplantation is a treatment option for irreversible, life-threatening heart diseases that cannot be managed by other medical or surgical methods.
• Return to Top Heart transplantation indications Heart transplantation is used as a last resort for people with end-stage heart disease who have no other surgical or medical therapy available.
• 10, 2005 Transplant Process Heart Transplantation Heart transplantation is the removal of a diseased heart and its replacement with a healthy human heart.
• The continued expansion of heart transplantation is currently limited by the availability of donor hearts, which has remained stagnant at approximately 2,000 per year.
• This program has been so successful that many of the patients who are referred to either the cardiomyopathy clinic directly or to the heart transplant program have improved their cardiac function to such an extent that heart transplantation is no longer necessary.

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