Can congenital heart disease change the heart?

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2025-05-22 16:23:50 Views: 18 times

Heart transplant surgery is usually referred to as heart transplantation surgery, congenital heart disease whether to do heart transplant surgery should be combined with the specific situation analysis.

Can congenital heart disease change the heart?

Congenital heart disease is a kind of heart disease formed during fetal development, can be alone, can also exist with other heart diseases. For some serious, drug treatment ineffective congenital heart disease patients, heart transplant surgery is a feasible treatment. However, heart transplant surgery itself has high risks and difficulties, because it requires implanting an unfamiliar heart in the patient, and requires a series of rejection reactions and follow-up treatments. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation of the patient before surgery is required, including heart function, function of other organs, immune system, etc. If the examination determines that the patient meets the indications for surgery, heart transplant surgery can generally be performed; otherwise, it cannot be performed.



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