Heart transplant?!


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Heart transplant?

how long does a person live after a heart transplant if everytinhg went as expected? is there a certain amount of time before that heart starts to fail too? serious answers only please because i know everyone is going to die


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The prognosis for heart transplant patients following the orthotopic procedure has greatly increased over the past 20 years, and as of Aug. 11, 2006, the survival rates were as follows:

* 1 year: 86.1% (males), 83.9% (females)
* 3 years: 78.3% (males), 74.9% (females)
* 5 years: 71.2% (males), 66.9% (females)

As of 2006, Tony Huesman is the world's longest living heart transplant patient, having survived for 28 years with a transplanted heart. Huesman received a heart in 1978 at the age of 20 after viral pneumonia severely weakened his heart. The operation was performed at Stanford University under American heart transplant pioneer Dr. Norman Shumway, who continued to perform the operation in the U.S. after others abandoned it due to poor results.
However those with renal failure carry extremely poor prognosis.




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