Heart Transplantation is a Method of Treatment for the Most Serious Heart Patients

Heart transplantation is a method of treatment for patients with terminal stage heart failure, coronary disease, arrhythmias, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or congenital heart disease in whom the possibilities of pharmacotherapy or standard surgical treatment have been exhausted. Transplantation may also be indicated in patients who cannot be weaned from cardiac assist devices after myocardial infarction or non-transplant heart surgery and in patients with heart failure due to lung disease, in whom lung transplantation is indicated. The only absolute contraindication is pulmonary hypertension; relative contraindications are organ failure and local or systemic infiltrative diseases.