Question 1

anti rejection drugs from heart transplant, can this cause personality change?

Accepted Answer

Not impossible: Talk with your physicians to let them know the details and perhaps they can make changes that will help. Absolutely do not change your dose or medication without doctor's advice. Promise? Be well!

Question 2

if you get a heart transplant, do your emotions and feels  change?

Accepted Answer

No and yes: The transplant is a huge pyschological ordeal.  And this would affect anyone.


But your emotions are from your brain and not your heart.

Question 3

will a heart transplant survivor have a psychological change in relation to his donor?

Accepted Answer

Variable: Since all heart donors are deceased, it is very unusual for the recipient to have known the donor, but this may have occurred in a small number of cases.  It would depend on what relationship existed prior to death and donation.  In addition, there may be attempts to contact donor families with mutual consent.

Question 4

how is a open heart transplant performed?

Accepted Answer

Carefully!: Seriously though, the patient is placed on cardiopulmonary bypass, the donor heart is readied, the recipient heart is arrested and removed - usually the back walls of the atria are left behind, that is where the new heart is grafted. Immunosuppressant may be given and the patient is weaned off bypass and the donor heart takes over.

Question 5

how do they keep hearts alive for heart transplant?

Accepted Answer

: Traditionally, the donated heart, once harvested, is flushed with a cold solution and kept on ice while transported to the new recipient. New technology is being developed that hopes to reduce tissue damage/decay by keeping the heart warm and beating in a special device; while it is being fed by a steady stream of oxygenated blood and nutrients.

Question 6

can someone serve in the military with a heart transplant?

Accepted Answer

No: Pts with a heart transplant require a great deal of care and are very fragile. They are suseptible to infections due to the medications there on . They also have to go for routine surviellence biopsies of their heart. Too high maintenance for the military.

Question 7

please tell me if it is possible to do a heart transplant?

Accepted Answer

YES: About 2200 heart transplants are done each year in the usa. I do not understand your question. It is expected that more americans will end up with a ventricular assist device as bridge to transplant or as destination therapy rescue from cardiogenic shock in the next 10 years. Currently about 70% 5 year survival for heart transplants.

Question 8

how dangerous of a surgery is a heart transplant?

Accepted Answer

Better than altern.: Heart transplant recipients can now days expect nearly a 90% 1 yr survival and 75% at 5 years. This therapy is for patients with end stage heart failure who otherwise have a poor quality of life and limited prognosis without transplant or lvad.

Question 9

if a patient smokes, will this hurt their chances for a heart transplant?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Smoking accelerates vascular disease.

Question 10

can brugadasydrom  patients get a heart transplant?

Accepted Answer

Not a treatment. : Heart transplantation is not a treatment for brugada syndrome. The cause of death is a lethal cardiac arrhythmia. Treatment is a implantable cardiac defibrillator. Some recent studies suggest Quinidine may be helpful but only after a defibrillator..

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