Adults with end-stage heart failure account for 90% of heart transplant recipients. Pediatric patients make up the remaining 10%, with 50% of those going to patients under the age of five.
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A person approved for heart transplantation is placed on the heart transplant waiting list of a heart transplant center.
heart lung It is much harder to transplant just lungs as the heart gets in the way! So in most cases it will be a heart and lung transplant. If the heart taken out is healthy then that is given to someone else who is just wanting a heart. It does not go to waste.
Heart transplant is only done if the heart has been terribly damaged by infection or disease, and if there are no other ways to improve heart function.
False. The first heart transplant into a human was performed in 1964, when a dying man received a chimpanzee heart. The first transplant of a human heart to another human was performed in 1967.
It is possible