Heart Transplant
A surgical procedure used to remove a damaged or diseased heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart. Also called a cardiac transplant, heart transplants are recommended for patients who experience heart failure caused by coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy, heart valve disease with congestive heart failure, severe heart disease present at birth, and life-threatening abnormal heartbeats that do not respond to other therapy. Heart transplant surgery is not recommended for patients who have kidney, lung or liver disease, insulin-dependent diabetes, other types of blood vessel disease of the neck and leg, or other life-threatening diseases.
Variants
- cardiac transplant
