Because the chance of rejection is highest during the first few months after the transplantation, recipients are usually given a combination of three or four immunosuppressive drugs in high doses during this time
Most patients with mild or moderate heart failure can be successfully treated with dietary and exercise programs and the right medications.
Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
Patients who are limited in daily activity, as defined by their doctors, and have a limited life expectancy, are candidates for heart-lung transplantation. These patients suffer from untreatable end-stage pulmonary, organ, and/or vascular disease.
Cardiac surgeons and cardiovascular surgeons can be trained in transplantation surgery during their residency. Young adults and pediatric patients are treated at centers that specialize in the care of children.
Patients with complications from untreated or repeated infections are treated surgically. Surgery can be used for corneal transplantation or to correct eyelid deformities.
Philip Blaiberg has written: 'Looking at my heart' -- subject(s): Biography, Heart, Patients, Transplantation
Patients receiving a pancreas transplantation are monitored closely for organ rejection.
Patients with advanced heart and lung disease, who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive,
A person approved for heart transplantation is placed on the heart transplant waiting list of a heart transplant center. All patients on a waiting list are registered with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
patients who are acutely ill and unstable; who have uncontrolled or untreatable pulmonary infection; significant dysfunction of other organs, particularly the liver, kidney, or central nervous system
Scarring or abnormality of the biliary system accounts for roughly 20% of the patients who need a liver transplantation.
They are highly specialized experts in kidney transplantation who help the patients with both failed kidneys to live a quality life after the transplantation procedure.