heart transplant?

Question

how long does a person live after a heart transplant if everytinhg went as expected? is there a certain amount of time before that heart starts to fail too? serious answers only please because i know everyone is going to die

Answer 1

The prognosis for heart transplant patients following the orthotopic procedure has greatly increased over the past 20 years, and as of Aug. 11, 2006, the survival rates were as follows:

* 1 year: 86.1% (males), 83.9% (females)
* 3 years: 78.3% (males), 74.9% (females)
* 5 years: 71.2% (males), 66.9% (females)

As of 2006, Tony Huesman is the world's longest living heart transplant patient, having survived for 28 years with a transplanted heart. Huesman received a heart in 1978 at the age of 20 after viral pneumonia severely weakened his heart. The operation was performed at Stanford University under American heart transplant pioneer Dr. Norman Shumway, who continued to perform the operation in the U.S. after others abandoned it due to poor results.
However those with renal failure carry extremely poor prognosis.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

No after a heart transplant the person will have to be on medications to keep the body from rejecting the new heart and this will be a lifetime thing. However there are no limits on how long the heart will pump its just like having your own it can last for many years or go in a day.

Answer 4

It really hard to say for the most part i understand 10 years to 15. There is a guy who lives in the same town who had a transplant 20 years ago hope this helps have a good day

Answer 5

This would partly depend on why they need the transplant and what other conditions they have. If they were born with a heart defect it definitely won't reoccur, a transplant due to atherosclerosis may develop the same problems with the new heart.

Survival rates > 5 yrs last I heard, but dependent on other conditions as well, renal failure, risk of infections, etc.

Answer 6

As of Aug. 11, 2006, the one-year survival rate was 86.1 percent for males and 83.9 percent for females; the three-year survival rate was about 78.3 percent for males and 74.9 percent for females. The five-year survival rate was 71.2 percent for males and 66.9 percent for females.

Click these below links for graphs, etc, about survival rates and other information that may help you.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/heart-transplant/statsjax.html
http://www.llu.edu/ihi/sld002.html
http://www.musc.edu/hearttransplant/
http://www.ustransplant.org/annual_reports/current/1108_agecat_hr.htm
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4588
http://www.mayoclinic.org/heart-transplant/patientstories.html