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What Are the Benefits of Artificial Heart Transplants?

An artificial heart is a medical device designed to replace the two lower chambers of a patient̵7;s heart. Artificial heart transplant offers many benefits for patients suffering from heart failure, including those patients who are not candidates to eventually receive a donor heart.

  1. Survival to Transplantation

    • One of the primary benefits of an artificial heart transplant is that it can prolong a heart-failure patient̵7;s survival time, increasing the chances that the patient will live long enough to receive a donor heart.

    Improved Quality of Life

    • As it can take a long time to receive a donor heart from the national waiting list, an artificial heart transplant can improve a patient̵7;s quality of life while on the waiting list.

    Better Transplant Candidate

    • An additional benefit of an artificial heart transplant is that it makes the patient a better candidate for an ordinary heart transplant, since an artificial heart helps the patient̵7;s other organs recover from the damage caused by heart failure.

    Increased Transplantation Survival

    • Probably since an artificial heart transplant makes patients better transplant candidates, artificial hearts also boost a patient̵7;s odds of surviving after a donor heart transplant.

    Alternative to Heart Transplant

    • An artificial heart can also benefit advanced heart-failure patients who are not candidates to receive a donor heart. Undergoing an artificial heart transplant can prolong the lives of such patients.

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