Heart transplants offer a second chance at life. But most hospitals reject patients once they turn 70. Temple Health's approach is giving more older people the chance to get back to their lives.
Heart transplants offer a second chance at life. But most hospitals reject patients once they turn 70.Heart transplants offer a second chance at life. But most hospitals reject patients once they turn 70."I was riding my bike 15, 20 miles a day, going down to Mexico snorkeling," Tom Fennell recalls of his life two years ago."About an hour later, they said - 'Tom, you've had a massive heart attack,'" he was told.
"We are a center that believes in second chances," notes Tamie Boucher, P.A., Temple Health heart transplant manager. "You can have somebody who's in their 50s, and has so many comorbidities that they're too high risk for transplant," notes Dr. Hamad.
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