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Help please! when someone has a heart transplant can they live with the new heart to an elderly age?
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Yes: However, before deciding on a heart transplant (i assume for a very weak heart), that is a very serious surgery, the transplant specialist will offer several other treatments and procedures to improve heart failure. Please, pay attention to what they are offering and follow their advise very closely to improve your chances.
Answered 4/17/2014
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