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WoodpeckerRich4461 t1_iv8q105 wrote

Reply to comment by Fluapaveggen in During heart transplanting, how does the body survive before the heart is replaced? by harkhinz

In a hospital setting that is equipped with staff and materials to provide proper care, people can survive days or more attached to a device like this on a regular basis for reasons beyond a transplant surgery. Often the survival of a transplant patient comes down to something other than the bypass machine including post-operative complications and immunosuppression

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Taykeyero t1_iv8r9qh wrote

I would offer to this that staying on a bypass isn't optimal. After having a valve repaired I developed migraine. Cardiologist said it happens to patients who stay on them for a long time and my case was long. Others counter this so who knows but I didn't have them before and I still get them. I know, I know..this doesn't prove anything but I'm sharing anyway.

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