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Heart and Heart/Lung Transplant

Background

In some cases of heart or lung conditions in children there comes a time where treatment with a donor organ is the only remaining option. The need for transplantation presents many difficulties with painful decisions for both the recipient and donor parent.

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Medical text written May 1997 by Contact a Family. Approved May 1997 by Dr A Reddington, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. Last reviewed August 2002 by Dr R Yates, Consultant Fetal and Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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