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Heart Transplant Surgery

Heart Transplant Surgery

heart transplant also known as a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients who have end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease and have failed all other medical or surgical treatments. As of 2018, the most common procedure is to take a functioning heart from a recently deceased organ donor brain death is the standard and implant it into the patient. The patient's own heart is either removed and replaced with the donor heart (orthotopic procedure), or the recipient's diseased heart is left in place to support the donor heart heterotopic, or "piggyback" transplant procedure, which is much less common.

  • Artificial heart
  • Biological pacemaker
  • Xenotransplantation
  • Orthotopic transplantation
  • Heterotopic transplantation
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