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CHOC Childrens

Children's Hospital of Orange County
CHOC.org
455 South Main Street
Orange, CA 92868-3874
(714) 997-3000


Dictionary: Heart Transplant

Heart transplant: A heart transplant is a surgery where doctors remove a person's sick heart and replace it with a healthy donor heart. Doctors decide to do a heart transplant when a heart condition can't be improved with medicines or surgery.