All you need to know about Heart Transplant

A heart transplant is a procedure that involves replacing a sick or failing heart with a healthier donor heart. Some patients’ conditions become critical and ineffective with medications, and in this case, they can only be treated by a heart transplant surgeon. Whereas a heart transplant is an extensive procedure, you have a good chance of surviving with proper follow-up treatment.

What is the purpose of a heart transplant?

When all the treatments have failed, and the patient leads to heart failure, doctors have to do a heart transplant. In all groups of people, the reasons behind the heart failure are as follows:

  • Coronary artery disease
  • An inborn heart defect
  • A prior heart transplant had failed.
  • Weakened heart muscles
  • Heart valve disease

There are only two significant causes of a heart transplant in children: cardiomyopathy and a congenital heart defect. In persons with specific illnesses, another organ transplant may be performed simultaneously with a heart transplant (multiorgan transplant) at specific medical centers.

Risks while doing a heart transplant surgery:

Along with infection, bleeding, and blood clots while doing open-heart surgery, there are many other risks which are as follows:

  • Primary graft failure- in this condition, the transplanted heart of the patient fails after a few months.
  • Side effects of medication- after the heart transplantation, you need to take immunosuppressants for the rest of your life. These side effects can cause severe kidney problems and other significant issues.
  • Issues with your arteries- after the heart transplant surgery, the hardening or thickening of your artery walls is possible, leading to low or complicated blood circulation. And ultimately, a heart failure, heart attack, or sudden cardiac death.
  • Body’s rejection of transplanted heart: one of the significant and most common risks after heart transplantation is your body is not accepting the new heart. Your immune system is considering the new heart as a foreign object. The patients have to take immunosuppressants to reduce this rejection by the immune system. Have your medications properly on time to get away from these risks.

At Asian hospital Faridabad, Dr. Amit Chaudhary is a cardiac specialist capable of doing heart transplant and valve heart surgery excellently. Along with these surgeries, he is also a specialist in angiography and angioplasty. Visit the clinic to know more.

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