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What is the definition or description of: heart transplant?
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Getting a new donor: Getting a heart from a donor who passed away from not heart related caused.
Answered 12/1/2012
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Heart replaced: For patients with irreversible end stage heart failure their only treatment besides mechanical assist devices is a heart transplant. In this procedure the heart from a dead patient is removed and sewn into the recipient patient. Anti rejection drugs are then used to prevent the heart from being immunologically rejected by the recipient.
Answered 1/2/2013
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