What is heart-lung transplantation?

Answer 1

Yes, there is such a thing as a heart transplant.

Given the right medical criteria, heart transplants can be done for some patients. Other patients do not meet the criteria, or choose to not have a transplant. Other patients who might want a transplant are too poor / lack insurance.

Answer 2

The recipient

When a person is diagnosed with *certain* heart ailments that cannot be cured or controlled by diet, exercise, medications, or other surgical intervention, the person may be put on the heart transplant registry. While on the registry and awaiting a 'new' heart, this patient must continue with whatever medications or interventions to stay alive.

The donor

Human donors usually come from accident victims, often head injury victims. Before the victim dies, the family might be asked whether they want the patient's organs donated. If 'yes', there is a limited time between natural "death" and transplant. So the medical staff must keep the donor's heart perfused--meaning, blood must be kept running through the heart. So the patient may be temporarily placed on a ventilator (or kept on one) until the transplant team is ready.

The doctors, surgeons, and transplant team must follow specific guidelines to be sure the donor has no hope of recovery and will die naturally if not on a ventilator. (Meaning, surgeons do not kill just to harvest organs.)

Transplantation

The recipient is prepped for heart surgery, including anti-rejection drugs. The donor's chest is opened. Major blood vessels are located. The donor is put on a machine that continues to circulate the blood (heart-bypass machine). As soon as the donor's diseased heart is removed, the donor-heart is placed into the chest. The major blood vessels are attached and sewn. Checks are done to make sure the vessels are not leaking. When the heart-bypass machine is switched off, the new heart should "pink up", meaning, blood flow makes the donated heart perfused. A shock may be needed to re-start the donated heart.

The donor must stay on anti-rejection drugs, often for the rest of the person's life.

It works pretty good except:

The heart is not innervated (nerves have been previously cut), so it responds to changes slowly.

The recipient is generally allergic to the new heart and so keeps trying to reject it.

A heart transplant patient must eat healthy foods and do exercise or the donated heart could become diseased too.

Answer 3

You cut a (healthy) heart out of one person and then sew it into place inside a second person (after you cut out the second heart ... and usually throw it away). It works pretty good except:

it's not enervated, so it responds to changes slowly.

The recipient is generally alergic to the new heart and so keeps trying to reject it.

Answer 4

First you put the Patient to sleep then you clean out the hearts arteries cafefully then you pick up the heart nd very kwickly put the new onw in then you conect the veins nd arteries witthe bovie pencil

Answer 5

to extend and improve the life of a person who would otherwise die from heart failure. Most patients who have received a new heart were so sick before transplantation that they could not live a normal life.

Answer 6

heart transplant is the process of translating heart in this the another heart is billeted in your body

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Answer 7

Heart transplantation, also called cardiac transplantation, is the replacement of a patient's diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart.

Answer 8

Heart-lung transplantation is the replacement of the native diseased heart and lungs by transplant of donor heart and lungs.

Answer 9

a human heart transplant you tard