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About 40 human heart transplants are performed annually in the United States, mostly at the Stanford Medical Center in California. Dr. Stuart W. Jamieson, chief resident of the cardiac program at Stanford, said the operations cause "very little" diversion of resources and that 65 percent of their transplant patients survive the first year of the operation...
John J. Collins, professor of surgery at Peter Bent Brigham, a Harvard teaching hospital, said yesterday the problem stems from the tremendous amount of time heart transplant patients must remain hospitalized. Since hearts, unlike kidneys, may only be taken from donors who are irreversibly ill or who have died recently, patients requiring such operations must sometimes wait weeks...
...When you add this to the six- or eight-week recuperation period, you see that transplant patients often spend ten to 12 weeks in the hospital-an awful lot of which is in the intensive care unit," Collins said, adding, "The Average ICU stay of a cardiac patient is 48 hours...
...decision came after ten months of debate and a nearly unanimous decision by the hospital's General executive Committee, its medical leadership, to approve a proposal to perform six transplant operations each year. W. Gerald Austen, MGH Chief of Surgery, refused to comment on the issue...
Currently fewer than 40 heart transplant operations per year are performed in this country, most of them at Stanford University Medical Center...