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Introduction:
A heart transplant is a surgical procedure to remove a failing
heart and replace or transplant it with a healthy donor heart (
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Around 3,500 heart transplants are carried out annually, more than half of which take place in the United States of America. The heart must be donated by somebody who is dead by neurological or circulatory criteria. Most of the potential donors are on ventilator support in the intensive care.
The average post-operative survival duration is 15 years. Heart transplants are life-saving procedures and improves the recipient's quality and duration of life but it is not necessarily a cure for heart disease (
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This quiz on Heart transplantation will test your knowledge to provide answers to the following questions: -
- How long can a heart be preserved? (4✔ ✔Trusted Source
What happens Heart transplant
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- Male vs female heart (5✔ ✔Trusted Source
The impact of gender on heart transplantation outcomes: a single center experience
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- Indications for heart transplantation (8✔ ✔Trusted Source
Adult heart transplant: indications and outcomes
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- The long term risks of heart transplants (9✔ ✔Trusted Source
Long-term outcome following heart transplantation: current perspective
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- About anti-rejection drugs (10✔ ✔Trusted Source
Heart Transplantation Rejection
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- Long term results of heart transplantation (11✔ ✔Trusted Source
Long-term outcome following heart transplantation: current perspective
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