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Heart Transplantation is a surgical transplant process done inpatients by replacing their damaged heart with a healthy heart.Heart Transplantation can be done is two ways, Orthotopic &Heterotopic procedure.Transplantation procedure needs a donor to donate a working andhealthy heart.The donor heart should be close enough in matching with patient'stissues, otherwise the patient's body may reject the new heart.
Heart Transplantation
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good candidate for Heart Transplantation
Life threatening & abnormal heart beating which doesn't respondto medications.Severe anginaSevere defects in the heart, which cannot be treated with surgeriesand medicationsIf the patient have severe coronary heart disease.End Stage of Heart Failure – when medications, other treatmentsis no longer affect the patient
Patients who are not eligible for heart transplantation
● The patient is over aged ie. above 55.● Have infections like active hepatitis.● Having insulin dependent diabetes.● Having kidney, lungs, liver or nerve diseases.● The patient is malnourished means the
patient doesnt have proper health to undergo a surgery.
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Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
The patient's heart is removed and the new donor heart isfixed.This is done if the patient's heart is so weak and the donorheart is healthy to handle the patient's functions
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Heterotopic Heart Transplantation
Without removing the patient's heart,the donor heart will be attached andthis is effectively called as “DoubleHeart”.To give a chance to recover thepatient's heart.The patient's heart will get supportfrom the donor heart to functionnormally
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Fortis Heart Failure Centre Chennai have done the firstsuccessful in June 2010, till now 75
transplants have been done successfully. Also Fortis is first to doHVAD implant surgery, and several other surgeries
heart transplantation
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