Indication for Transplant
Criteria have been established to help determine if a patient is a candidate for transplantation.
Criteria for heart transplant evaluation:
- Cardiomyopathy
- Ischemic heart disease
- Hypertrophic heart disease
- Severe decompensated inoperable valvular heart disease
- Congenital heart disease
- Any other cardiac abnormalities that severely limit normal function and/or have a mortality risk of greater than 50 percent at two years
- Ventricular Assist Device dependent patients who meet criteria for transplantation
- Age younger than 65 years (will consider 65 to 70 years old on case-by-case basis)
- Life-threatening heart rhythm disorders that fail treatment
- Chest pain refractory to maximum medical and surgical therapy
