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Is It Possible To Have A Heart And Lung Transplant?
I am at end stage COPD, I have and enlarged heart as expected when I was diagnosed 20 years ago. I hav3e had one serious A Fib heart attack I can t walk 100 feet without sitting down with a poxegen hooked up to me. I still drive but only when I have to. My meds male me unsafe. I am taking a myriad of normal drugs for my heawrt and lungs. I was doing okay and still working as a missionary until I got Cholera in The Philippines where I almost died then. I have never been the same since. I wish ti get a heart and lung transplant is that possible. will I live long enough for there to be a match? will my heart return to normal with new lungs and no smoking. I quite smoking more than 25 years ago but my lungs are full of farming dust and Fiber glass from a boat Assembly. plant.
Dear i have read your problem n can understand your problem . At present many countries are having this facility of heart lung transplant but this is the last option as the 5 year survival rate is less than 80% after operation . Countries like spain is the leading transplant centre . So its all depend on the age and condition of the patient after proper check up . Hope this will help .if anything is left u want to tell me pls mail me ,i ll feel happy to help u.......thanks .....best wishes
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Is It Possible To Have A Heart And Lung Transplant?
Dear i have read your problem n can understand your problem . At present many countries are having this facility of heart lung transplant but this is the last option as the 5 year survival rate is less than 80% after operation . Countries like spain is the leading transplant centre . So its all depend on the age and condition of the patient after proper check up . Hope this will help .if anything is left u want to tell me pls mail me ,i ll feel happy to help u.......thanks .....best wishes