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How safe are heart valve transplants?

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Dr. ARMAN Askari answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine - Cardiology

Depends: Do you mean replacements? This type of surgery should only be performed at experienced centers. "experienced " surgeons do at least 50 valve surgeries per year. In seasoned hands, relatively safe surgery with a mortality rate <5%.

Answered 7/27/2013

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