Not just CHF, really take your pick of underlying cause for the cardiac episodes. Myo/pericarditis causes heart muscle to be squeezed against the pericardium; ten pounds of shit in a 5 pound sack analogy. That causes ischemia in the muscle and (hopefully not) nervous tissues of the heart. Even after blood flow comes back, the tissues don't regenerate. They turn into scar tissue that doesn't contract or conduct electricity. So not only are they giving them the heart of a geriatric with CAD, it's a geriatric with CAD who's already had a heart attack. Iirc the 5 year mortality rate was like 30%.
Somebody is going to find a way to make these companies pay
Not just CHF, really take your pick of underlying cause for the cardiac episodes. Myo/pericarditis causes heart muscle to be squeezed against the pericardium; ten pounds of shit in a 5 pound sack analogy. That causes ischemia in the muscle and (hopefully not) nervous tissues of the heart. Even after blood flow comes back, the tissues don't regenerate. They turn into scar tissue that doesn't contract or conduct electricity. So not only are they giving them the heart of a geriatric with CAD, it's a geriatric with CAD who's already had a heart attack. Iirc the 5 year mortality rate was like 30%.
Somebody is going to find a way to make these companies pay