A heart transplant is not a cure. There are better options.
Public information campaigns on (heart) transplant are biaised. Mechanical circulatory support is a better option (even for elderly patients) than a heart transplant. Yet the info the broad public gets is all about heart transplant; nothing about mechanical circulatory support. How comes? Those campaigns are financed for up to 60% by "Big Pharma" (immunosuppressive drugs). When you get a transplant, you need the drug. When you get treated with mechanical circulatory support (a device) instead, you don #39;t. Big Pharma has no interest in patient education on mechanical circulatory support... Heart surgeons should start thinking again: it #39;s time they get involved in "patient education"...Somebody has to do the job "Big Pharma" is obviously not doing. Unless you call this "taking advantage" practice of theirs "patient education"... Medical liability includes the loss of chance doctrine. This legal rule applies to surgeons (not to Big Pharma)... Mechanical circulatory support remains underused ; heart transplant is overrated (a transplant is not a cure). Heart transplant has always been the gondola head in organ donation public campaigns - quite a paradox, since wordlwide #39;s most sought after transplant organ is (are)... kidneys. Disruptive treatments are making an appearance: 3D-printed organs (bladder, skin, trachea, and soon... transplantable kidneys). Daily progress in genomics, bioengineering (3D-printed biomaterial, regenerative medicine, stem cell therapy) shows that ...
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