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    Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure where a patient's failing heart is replaced by a donor heart. The first successful heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. While heart transplantation can extend life for patients with end-stage heart failure, complications include organ rejection and side effects from lifelong immunosuppressive drugs. With medical advances, one-year survival rates following heart transplantation are now around 85-90%, with three-year survival approaching 75%.

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    Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure where a patient's failing heart is replaced by a donor heart. The first successful heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. While heart transplantation can extend life for patients with end-stage heart failure, complications include organ rejection and side effects from lifelong immunosuppressive drugs. With medical advances, one-year survival rates following heart transplantation are now around 85-90%, with three-year survival approaching 75%.

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    Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure where a patient's failing heart is replaced by a donor heart. The first successful heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. While heart transplantation can extend life for patients with end-stage heart failure, complications include organ rejection and side effects from lifelong immunosuppressive drugs. With medical advances, one-year survival rates following heart transplantation are now around 85-90%, with three-year survival approaching 75%.

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    Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure where a patient's failing heart is replaced by a donor heart. The first successful heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. While heart transplantation can extend life for patients with end-stage heart failure, complications include organ rejection and side effects from lifelong immunosuppressive drugs. With medical advances, one-year survival rates following heart transplantation are now around 85-90%, with three-year survival approaching 75%.

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    A heart transplant involves replacing a patient's failing heart with a healthy donor heart to treat end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The donor heart can either replace the recipient's heart or be placed beside it to support it.

    Patients with advanced kidney, lung, or liver disease, active cancer, life-threatening unrelated diseases, severe vascular issues, high pulmonary resistance, recent thromboembolism, severe obesity may be less suitable candidates for heart transplantation.

    Potential post-operative complications include infection, sepsis, organ rejection, and side effects of immunosuppressive medications like increased risk of infections or cancers since the transplant recipient's immune system tries to reject the donor heart.

    Heart Transplantation

    ARSHAD JAWED
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    Heart Transplantation

    A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant


    procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or
    severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical
    treatments have failed.
    The patient's own heart is either removed and replaced with the
    donor heart (orthotopic procedure) or, much less commonly, the
    recipient's diseased heart is left in place to support the donor heart
     Not having a human donor heart available, James D. Hardy of the
    University of Mississippi Medical Center transplanted the heart
    of a chimpanzee into the chest of a dying Boyd Rush in the early
    morning of Jan. 24, 1964.

     The world's first human-to-human heart transplant was


    performed by South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
    Patient Louis Washkansky received this transplant on December 3,
    1967, at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
    Washkansky, however, died 18 days later from pneumonia.
    CONTRADICTION

     Some patients are less suitable for a heart transplant, especially if they suffer from other
    circulatory conditions related to their heart condition. For Example;
     Advanced kidney, lung, or liver disease.
     Active cancer if it is likely to impact the survival of the patient
     Life-threatening diseases unrelated to heart failure, including acute infection or systemic
    disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus, sarcoidosis or amyloidosis
     Vascular disease of the neck and leg arteries.
     High pulmonary vascular resistance – over 5 or 6 Wood units.
     Insulin-dependent diabetes with severe organ dysfunction
     Recent thromboembolism such as stroke
     Severe obesity
    COMPLICATIONS

    Post-operative complications include infection, sepsis, organ


    rejection as well as the side-effects of the immunosuppressive
    medication. Since the transplanted heart originates from another
    organism, the recipient's immune system typically attempts to
    reject it. The risk of rejection never fully goes away, and the
    patient will be on immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their
    life, but these may cause unwanted side effects, such as
    increased likelihood of infections or development of certain
    cancers.
    SURVIVAL RATE

    Survival — Approximately 85 to
    90 percent of heart transplant
    patients are living one year
    after their surgery, with an
    annual death rate of
    approximately 4 percent
    thereafter. The three-year
    survival approaches 75 percent.

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