Heart needn’t be perfect to be used in a transplant
Some Imperfect Hearts OK for Transplant. A heart needn’t be perfect to be used in a transplant, a new study shows.
Five-year results for people given hearts with mild-to-moderate left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) — a thickening of the heart’s main pumping chamber — were as good as for those who got hearts with no problems, cardiologists [...]