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Conditions Leading to Heart Transplant

At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, each potential transplant patient is evaluated individually by a team of experts to ensure the patient is healthy enough to survive transplant and will receive long-term benefits.

Common indications for heart transplant include:

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Heart Failure

Overview of heart failure at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

  • Overview of heart failure at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
  • Overview of heart transplant services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
  • In fall of 2001, Harrison Black struggled to breathe, lost weight and felt miserable. Doctors told him that a virus had damaged his heart and he would need a heart transplant. After 11 months of rehab, Black went on the heart transplant waiting list. Just two weeks later, he was on the operating table at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, getting his donor heart. Today, Black is stronger than ever, thanks to his heart transplant.
  • Ventricular Assist Devices help heart failure patients survive while either waiting for a donor heart … or helping a failing heart beat instead of receiving a transplant.
  • In our 25 year history of heart transplant, few have gained the attention of our 587th patient, 23 year-old Megan Moss.