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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.
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Surgery: The Fontan Procedure
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Surgery: The Glenn Procedure
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Surgery: The Norwood Procedure
- When Your Child Needs a Heart Transplant
- Cardiomyopathy
- Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV)
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