Innovations in high-risk heart failure treatments: transplants and technology

Leading medical centers, including Temple University Hospital, are finding new ways to approve more people for heart transplants, including those with coexisting health conditions. An estimated 6 million Americans — nearly equal to the population of the Delaware Valley — are living with a heart failure diagnosis. The life-threatening condition develops when the heart becomes too weak to pump adequate blood supply to support other organs in the body. Heart failure is co mmonly associated with…
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