Heart Transplant Procedures
Health Encyclopedia: Heart Transplant
Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart.
Alternative Names
Cardiac transplant; Transplant - heart
Description
Heart transplantis the fourth most common transplant operation in the U.S., with over 2,200 cases per year. Cornea, kidney and liver transplants are the most common. A healthy heart is obtained from a donor who is brain dead but on life-support. Th...
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Expert & Community Posts
Keeping Your Heart Beating Healthily
By Heather Reese , Health Expert...physically. In severe cases, this condition may require a heart transplant, but for most people... Read more »
The Multiple Sclerosis Tapestry: Interviews with People whose Lives are affected by MS
By Merely Me , Health Expert...an end-stage heart disease, and ended up getting a heart transplant. During her illness - which... Read more »
Health Guide
Heart transplant
...medications Problems breathing Risks for any surgery are: Bleeding Infection Heart transplants carry major risks. There is a greater risk of infection because of the drugs... Read more »Heart transplant
...Names Cardiac transplant; Transplant - heart Expectations after surgery Heart transplant prolongs the life of a patient who would otherwise die. About 80% of heart... Read more »Open heart surgery
...surgery Heart bypass surgery (coronary artery bypass graft - CABG) Heart transplant Heart valve prosthesis Heart valve surgery ... Read more »Ventricular fibrillation
...heartbeat and heart function. Persons with heart muscle damage may need additional procedures, including a heart transplant. A cardiologist will look for potential causes of the VF. An... Read more »Restrictive cardiomyopathy
...disease, some patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy may benefit from steroids or chemotherapy. A heart transplant may be considered if the function of the heart is very poor. Expectations... Read more »Images
Medications
...transplant, shortness of breath/inability to exercise with heart transplant). Seek immediate... Read more »
...transplant, shortness of breath/inability to exercise with heart transplant). Seek immediate... Read more »
...rejection in people who have received a liver, kidney, or heart transplant. It is usually taken... Read more »
...rejection in people who have received a liver, kidney, or heart transplant. It is usually taken... Read more »
Related News
Infection Dangerous After Heart Transplant
November 06, 2007(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients who develop a central nervous system infection after having a heart transplant are at serious risk for death.... Read summary »
Gender Matters in Heart Transplants
November 17, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- For the more than 2,000 patients who undergo heart transplants each year, the risk of survival is better if they receive a... Read summary »
Heart Transplant Breakthrough
March 30, 2007NEW YORK (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- "I swim on a regular basis at my local YMCA. I play tennis. I play golf ... Not very well." Candace Moose moves... Read summary »
Clean the Blood, Save the Heart
May 05, 2008HOUSTON (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- It wasn't too long ago that Allen Johnson wasn't feeling so great. "Life ... was pretty much sitting on the... Read summary »
Device Helps Failing Hearts
May 05, 2008BALTIMORE (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Doctors say they're closer than ever to finding the perfect heart pump that could someday help nearly 5... Read summary »
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