Dr Jose Chacko of Medical Trust Hospital Ernakulam
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daniel hale williams
Abraham
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Orthotopic Transplantation. Nikhil
Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or some other life-threatening heart disease.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard
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.
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
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
Dr Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant. Heart.