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What is the criteria for receiving a heart transplant?
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Heaert transplant: End stage heart failure that is not responding to medications with other qualifiers such as ability to be able to take multiple medications to prevent rejection.
Answered 2/2/2015
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Several Steps: The recipient will need careful evaluation to determine they are suitable candidates based on the cause of end stage heart disease, their co-morbidities (other diseases), their blood and tissue type, their size (for a particular donor heart) and there ability to care for the heart after it is transplanted.
Answered 12/13/2014
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