- One of the primary benefits of an artificial heart transplant is that it can prolong a heart-failure patient's survival time, increasing the chances that the patient will live long enough to receive a donor heart.
- As it can take a long time to receive a donor heart from the national waiting list, an artificial heart transplant can improve a patient's quality of life while on the waiting list.
- An additional benefit of an artificial heart transplant is that it makes the patient a better candidate for an ordinary heart transplant, since an artificial heart helps the patient's other organs recover from the damage caused by heart failure.
- Probably since an artificial heart transplant makes patients better transplant candidates, artificial hearts also boost a patient's odds of surviving after a donor heart transplant.
- An artificial heart can also benefit advanced heart-failure patients who are not candidates to receive a donor heart. Undergoing an artificial heart transplant can prolong the lives of such patients.
Survival to Transplantation
Improved Quality of Life
Better Transplant Candidate
Increased Transplantation Survival
Alternative to Heart Transplant
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