Depiction
- Finding a benefactor heart can be troublesome. The heart must be given by somebody who is cerebrum dead however is still in a coma.
- The benefactor heart must be in typical
condition without infection and must be coordinated as intently as conceivable to your blood
and/or tissue type to decrease the opportunity that your body will dismiss it.
- You are placed into a profound lay down with general anesthesia, and a slice is made through the breastbone.
- Your blood courses through a heart-lung sidestep machine while the specialist chips away at your heart
- This machine takes every necessary step of your heart and lungs while they are halted, and supplies your body with blood and oxygen.
- Your sick heart is expelled and the giver heart is sewed set up. The heart-lung machine is then separated. Blood moves through the
transplanted heart, which assumes control over providing your body with blood and oxygen.
- Cylinders are embedded to deplete air, liquid, and blood out of the chest for a few days, and to enable the lungs to completely re-extend.
Why the Procedure is Performed
- A heart transplant might be done to treat:
- Serious heart harm after a cardiovascular failure
- Serious cardiovascular breakdown, when drugs, different medications, and medical procedure never again help
- Extreme heart deserts that were available during childbirth and can't be fixed with medical procedure
- Dangerous anomalous pulses or rhythms that don't react to different medications
Heart transplant medical procedure may not be utilized in individuals who:
- Are malnourished
- Are more seasoned than age 65 to 70
- Have had a serious stroke or dementia
- Have had malignant growth under 2 years prior
- Have HIV disease
- Have diseases, for example, hepatitis, that are dynamic
- Have insulin-subordinate diabetes and different organs, for example, the kidneys, that aren't working accurately
- Have kidney, lung, nerve, or liver illness
- Have no family bolster and don't follow their treatment
- Have different infections that influence the veins of the neck and leg
- Have pneumonic hypertension (thickening of veins in the lung)
- Smoke or misuse liquor or sedates, or have other way of life propensities that may harm the new heart
- Are not dependable enough to take their medications, or if the individual can't stay aware of the numerous emergency clinic and therapeutic office visits and tests
Dangers
- Dangers from any anesthesia are:
- Responses to prescriptions
- Issues relaxing
Dangers from any medical procedure are:
Dangers of transplant include:
- Blood clumps (profound venous thrombosis)
- Harm to the kidneys, liver, or different organs from hostile to dismissal medications
Advancement of malignancy from the medications used to forestall dismissal
- Coronary failure or stroke
- Heart cadence issues
- Elevated cholesterol levels, diabetes, and bone diminishing from the utilization of dismissal drugs
- Expanded hazard for contaminations because of hostile to dismissal prescriptions
- Lung and kidney disappointment
- Dismissal of the heart
- Extreme coronary supply route malady
- Wound contaminations
- The new heart may not work by any stretch of the imagination
Prior to the Procedure
When you are alluded to a transplant focus, you will be assessed by the transplant group.
They will need to ensure that you are a decent possibility for a transplant. You will visit many occasions more than half a month or even months.
You should have blood drawn and x-beams taken.
The next may likewise be finished:
Blood or skin tests to check for contaminations
Trial of your kidney and liver
Tests to assess your heart, for example, ECG, echocardiogram, and cardiovascular catheterization
Tests to search for disease
Tissue and blood composing, to help ensure your body won't dismiss the gave heart
Ultrasound of your neck and legs