Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
heart transplantation
heart trans·plan·ta·tion
Subclass of:
Cardiac Surgery procedures;
Organ Transplantation
Definitions related to heart transplantation:
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A heart transplant removes a damaged or diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy one. The healthy heart comes from a donor who has died. It is the last resort for people with heart failure when all other treatments have failed. The heart failure might have been caused by coronary heart disease, damaged heart valves or heart muscles, congenital heart defects, or viral infections of the heart. Although heart transplant surgery is a life-saving measure, it has many risks. Careful monitoring, treatment, and regular medical care can prevent or help manage some of these risks. After the surgery, most heart transplant patients can return to their normal levels of activity. However, fewer than 30 percent return to work for many different reasons. NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteMedlinePlusU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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A surgical procedure in which a damaged heart is removed and replaced by another heart from a suitable donor.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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The transference of a heart from one human or animal to another.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Transference of a heart or heart tissue between individuals of the same species or between individuals of different species.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Heart transplantation is an option for patients who have any of the following and who remain at risk of death and have intolerable symptoms despite optimal use of drugs and medical devices:Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
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Heart transplantation is the replacement of a failing heart with a heart from a suitable donor. The 1-year survival rate after cardiac transplantation is as high as 81.WebMD, 2019
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A heart transplant is an operation in which a diseased, failing heart is replaced with a healthier donor heart. Heart transplant is a treatment that's usually reserved for people whose condition hasn't improved enough with medications or other surgeries.Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
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Heart transplant, medical procedure involving the removal of a diseased heart from a patient and its replacement with a healthy heart. Because of the immense complexity of the procedure and the difficulty of finding appropriate donors, heart transplants are performed only as a last resort in...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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