HEART TRANSPLANTATION
Heart Transplantation is a complex procedure. It is gift of life given by an unknown person (donor) to an individual who has lost all his hopes due to poor heart condition. Heart transplantation is a surgical operation performed on patient with End stage heart disease due to any reason. Most commonly it is done by removing disease heart completely and replace with healthy cadaveric donor heart (Orthotropic heart transplantation). In very few cases part of recipient heart is left in place to support the donor heart (Heterotrophic heart transplantation). The average survival after transplant surgery is 15 years. Book an appointment with our cardiologist in india . Heart transplant was first performed by Dr. Christian Bernard on 3 rd December 1967 at Cape town South Africa. Norman Shummway is regarded as the father of cardiac transplant. World wise approximately 3500 heart transplant were performed annually and majority of these were performed in USA. The annual frequency of...