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Cardiac transplantation involves replacing a failing heart with a donor heart. It is reserved for patients with end-stage heart failure who have less than a year to live without the transplant. The first human heart transplant was performed in 1967. Now over 5000 are done annually worldwide. Candidates must have severe heart failure and contraindications include severe lung or kidney disease. Donors must be brain dead with healthy heart function. The donor heart is removed and implanted, requiring immunosup

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Asim Kumar Biswas

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