An operation in which a heart is transplanted.
he finally underwent a successful heart transplant in April
Example sentencesExamples
- The company offered to make its plane available for his father, who was in line for a heart transplant.
- The majority of people who receive heart transplants enjoy a high quality of life.
- In 1974, Christian Barnard carried out the first double heart transplant.
- The court, obviously concerned to protect her life, agreed to the heart transplant.
- About 150–200 heart transplants are carried out in the UK each year.
- I'm a mother of four with an ailing child who is in dire need of a heart transplant.
- The survival rate following a heart transplant is approximately 85 per cent.
- Cardiomyopathy is the number-one reason for heart transplants in children.
- A heart transplant usually needs to occur within four hours of organ removal for the donor organ to remain viable.
- Heart transplant is one of the last resorts for treating severe heart failure.