Soon after death, they take the heart out and preserve it in liquid so they can give the heart to someone else. They wouldn't take somebodies heart out while they were alive.
Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
Brain death must be present before organ transplantation can happen. The donor is kept on the ventilator while consent is obtained from next of kin, and also while the testing is completed on the donor for compatibility with the recipients.
Njogyl
Heterotopic transplantation is transplantation of a tissue to a place it is not normally found. In regards to cardiac transplantation, heterotopic cardiac transplant is the transplant of a donor heart without removing the native heart. This is a rare kind of cardiac transplantation.
daniel hale williams
coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, congenital diseases, and re-transplantation associated with organ rejection.
According to a year 2000 data from the Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), 81% of transplant recipients survive one year
Abraham
South Africa!
The one we want to establish
Before transplantation takes place, the patient is first determined to be a good candidate for transplantation by going through rigorous medical examination.
Orthotopic Transplantation. Nikhil