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How long can a heart transplant patient expect to live?
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Variable: It can be hard to generalize. Survival is dependent on a lot of factors. Overall health, health of donor heart, how close the heart was matched. Typically the life expectancy for heart transplant is a bout 10 years. The longest was 24 years. Rejection both chronic and acute play a big role. Often the new heart will begin to develop coronary artery disease probably an off shoot chronic rejection.
Answered 9/27/2018
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