A person approved for heart transplantation is placed on the heart transplant waiting list of a heart transplant center.

A beating-heart transplant is a heart transplant operation in which the donor heart is kept full of blood and continues to beat in a machine between donor and recipient.

The reason Cristiaan Barnard is famous is because he was the first person to perform a heart transplant.

heart lung

It is much harder to transplant just lungs as the heart gets in the way! So in most cases it will be a heart and lung transplant. If the heart taken out is healthy then that is given to someone else who is just wanting a heart. It does not go to waste.

Heart transplant is only done if the heart has been terribly damaged by infection or disease, and if there are no other ways to improve heart function.