Heart transplantation
| Subclass of | organ transplantation  |
|---|---|
| Significant person | Vladimir Demikhov, James Hardy, Christiaan Barnard, Carlo Marcelletti |
| Health specialty | cardiology |
| Class of object(s) of occurrence | heart |
A heart transplant, anaa a cardiac transplant, be a surgical transplant procedure dem perform on patients plus end-stage heart failure wen na oda medical anaa surgical treatments fail. As of 2018[update], de most common procedure be to take a functioning heart from a recently deceased organ donor (brain death be de most common[1]) wey dem implant am into de patient. Dem either dey komot den replace de patient ein own heart plus de donor heart (orthotopic procedure) anaa, much less commonly, dem lef de recipient ein diseased heart in place to support de donor heart (heterotopic, anaa "piggyback", transplant procedure).
Approximately 5,000 heart transplants be performed each year worldwide, more dan half of wich be insyd de US.[2] Post-operative survival periods dey average 15 years. Heart transplantation no be considered to be a cure give heart disease; rather e be a life-saving treatment dem intend to improve de quality den duration of life for a recipient.[3]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Kilic A, Emani S, Sai-Sudhakar CB, Higgins RS, Whitson BA, et al. (2014). "Donor selection in heart transplantation". Journal of Thoracic Disease. 6 (8): 1097–1104. doi:10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.03.23. PMC 4133543. PMID 25132976.
- ↑ Cook JA, Shah KB, Quader MA, et al. (2015). "The total artificial heart". Journal of Thoracic Disease. 7 (12): 2172–80. doi:10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2015.10.70. PMC 4703693. PMID 26793338.
- ↑ Burch M.; Aurora P. (2004). "Current status of paediatric heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantation". Archives of Disease in Childhood. 89 (4): 386–89. doi:10.1136/adc.2002.017186. PMC 1719883. PMID 15033856.
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