Lungs Pressure Needn’t Threaten Heart Transplant Survival

Heart surgeons at Johns Hopkins say people who need heart transplants can largely avoid transplant failure due to elevated blood pressure in their lungs with the help of proper drug treatment. Of the more than 2,000 heart transplants performed each year in the United States, up to 20 percent of the patients die or reject their organ within a year due to right heart failure brought on by pulmonary hypertension, infection or immune response. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Cardiovascular on November 7th, 2007