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Unique approach to heart-liver transplant offers new hope for highly sensitized patients – News-Medical.Net
All too often, patients with high levels of antibodies face major challenges getting a transplant. These highly sensitized patients have a much higher risk of death…
All too often, patients with high levels of antibodies face major challenges getting a transplant. These highly sensitized patients have a much higher risk of death while waiting for suitable organs they are less likely to reject. But there is new hope for highly sensitized patients in need of a combined heart and liver transplant, thanks to an innovative surgical approach at Mayo Clinic.
Traditionally, surgeons transplant the heart first, followed by the liver. But Mayo Clinic heart transplant…
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