“How long can a person live with a heart transplant?”

Several factors affect survival with a heart transplant. Factors include underlying vascular disease, presence of diabetes or not, level of kidney function, age of the person getting a transplant, plus donor variables too: including age, time between removal and implant, other illnesses in the donor. On average, survival is over 70% after one year of receiving a heart transplant; clinical care must be tight with frequent follow-up visits and blood tests and heart function evaluations; medication matters as well.

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