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A member asked:
What happens in a heart transplant to the donor?
6 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Donor dies: Well the donor is someone who is brain dead and has no chance of recovery. The donor would die when the heart is removed.
Answered 6/9/2012
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The donor has died: Heart transplantation depends on donation of a healthy heart from a human being who has died from other causes.
Answered 5/18/2012
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Most are buried: Heart transplants are done using hearts from patient that have become brain dead. After organ removal the bodies may or may not require an autopsy; this is up to the local medical examiner. Later they are buried or cremated depending on the wishes of the family.
Answered 4/29/2019
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If you are a heart donor and are a middle aged man, can you donate to a kid?
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During a heart transplant, after you take out an old heart and put a new one in, what happens if you cannot get it to beat for whatever reason? Death?
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