Last year, 4,111 heart transplants were performed in the U.S., a record number but not nearly enough to meet the need.
As heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in America, experts say these small lifestyle changes can help keep your heart at its healthiest.
"Honestly if we could snap our fingers and just get people to use this, I think it probably would go up even more than that," said transplant surgeon Dr. Jacob Schroder of Duke University School of Medicine, who led the research. "This really should be standard of care." Survival six months later was about the same –- 94% for the recipients of cardiac-death donations and 90% for those who got the usual hearts, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.Gary Lange spoke with FOX Television Stations about hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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