Recovery Time After A Heart Transplant
A heart transplant is surgery to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart.
Alternative Names
Cardiac transplant; Transplant - heart; Transplantation - heart
Description
Finding a donor heart can be difficult. The heart must be donated by someone who is brain-dead but is still on life support. The donor heart must be matched as closely as possible to your tissue type to reduce the chance that your body will reject it.
You are put into a deep sleep with
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