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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
What's up with the decline in survival rates of heart transplants after 5 years?
Is it attributable to rejection? It seems if your body doesn't reject the tissue after a year you'd be good to go.
Or maybe people that need heart transplants are generally older and/or less healthy than most and so they tend to die quickly?
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Bob Dole's neighbor had one and just wore out the replacement in 5 years because he would not slow down. Got a second one and was fine for a couple of years, then started having rejection issues. Then he started having gout issues due to complications from the drugs being used to deal with the rejection.