Best Doctors for Heart Transplant Treatment in Hyderabad

Heart transplantation is an open heart surgical procedure by which a healthy heart from a cadaveric donor is replaced in place of non functioning and diseased heart. This surgery is opted when there are severe heart conditions which does not respond well to medication and other treatment procedures. Common causes of heart transplantation are heart failure caused by cardiomyopathies, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, chronic cardiac arrhythmia and congenital heart defects. The whole procedure is done under the effect of general anesthesia. An incision is made to the chest wall, the chest bone and ribs are moved apart there by able to access the chest cavity. The healthy donor heart is now replaced in the place of diseased heart. The major blood vessels are attached to the new heart, the heart will start functioning once the flow is restored. Complications such as graft rejection, infection and bleeding are not uncommon.