Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
For what kind of disease would you need a heart transplant?
6 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Heart failure: The common background of any need for organ transplantion is the recipient organ fialure. For heart tranplant, the indicationis as well is heart fialure non responsive to medical management. Many diseases may damage the heart with death of the functional muscle cells. The most common of those diseases is ischemia, i.e. Coronary artery disease.
Answered 3/16/2017
6k views
There are several: Heart transplant recipients are in heart failure. About 33% have coronary artery disease; 53% have cardiomyopathy, and 10% have congenital heart disease as the most common diagnoses leading to transplant in the US.
Answered 10/22/2017
5.9k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
Help, what specific type of anaesthesia is used for heart transplant patients?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
If people with truncus arteriosus type 4 receive a heart transplant will it solve the problem?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
People also searched for:
What kind of heart disease requires a transplant?
What kind of heart diseases/problems can cause a person to need a heart transplant?
My mum has end stage liver disease and isn't a candidate for transplant due to diabetes heart failure and COPD how long has she got to live?
Failure kidney transplant because recurrence of focal glomerulosclerosis also has global hypokinesia on dialysis no diabetics or heart disease . ?
I have an LP(a) level of 135 nmol/L, and the rest of my lipid profile tests are all normal. I am a 21 years old, and 10 months post stem cell transplant. And I wanted to know if a high LP(a) level is dangerous and/or indicates heart disease?
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
