A surgical procedure for selected patients whose hearts are so severely damaged that medications, procedures, and surgical repair cannot help. A donated heart is transplanted into the patient to replace the damaged heart. Cardiac procedures for valve disease
a definitive treatment for cardiomyopathy but is obviously limited by availability of donor hearts, the risk of surgery, the need for immune suppression, etc
a high risk surgery that may result in bleeding, infection, or death
a major surgery in which your failing heart is removed and replaced with a healthy heart from an organ donor
an open-heart surgery in which a severely
an operation performed to replace a diseased heart with a healthy one from another person
an operation performed to replace a diseased heart with a healthy one that produce a moving picture of the heart and heart valves
a procedure in which a surgeon removes a diseased heart and replaces it with a donor heart
a surgical procedure performed to remove the diseased heart from a patient and replace it with a healthy one from an organ donor
a treatment reserved for patients with complex congenital heart disease or cardiomyopathy
A surgery which is needed when the heart becomes too weak to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs and all other options have been attempted and proven unsuccessful. Several factors will be considered and many tests performed to determine if someone is an appropriate candidate for a heart transplant. When surgery is deemed necessary, the failing heart is removed through incisions in the atria (the upper chambers of the heart), aorta and pulmonary arteries, and the donor heart is then stitched at these sites. Costly medications and frequent follow-up appointments are needed to keep the body from rejecting the new heart once it is in place.
Surgery that replaces a damaged heart with a healthy heart taken from a donor who has been declared brain dead.
A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. See the entire definition of Heart transplant
See cardiac transplantation.
is the replacement of a diseased or damaged heart with a healthy heart from a donor.
A medical procedure in which a diseased heart is surgically removed and replaced with a heart from a human donor.
Operation which involves replacing diseased Heart with the healthy Heart of a donor