heart transplant

My friend's husband had alpha 1 antitripsyn deficiency, which is a lung disease. He was initially to have the heart/lung transplant but ended just needing the heart. His case was different that you becasue his lungs were bad too. Like Sky says, the imunnosupressive drugs are a major consideration, and the potential of rejection. There are also potential psychological problems, which my friend's husband had and did successfully work though. You were young and healthy before this happened and that will go long way toward your recovery.
 
and for some odd reason i was also taking care of my little sister 10years old and she was perfectly healthy. and for more of a bad year. back in june i was on a highway, stopped, waiting for traffic to to pass so i can make my turn to go home and some guy slammed into the back of me causing my jeep to be thrown into the other lane where than a semi trailer ran over the front of my jeep, i was flown out of there and stayed over the night at the hospital and was back home the next day. cuts, scraps, bruises, stiches, and the seat belt moved my diffibulator.

what a nice year
 
I'm confused, was your sister killed in the car accident? If so, I'm so sorry. As for the heart/virus thing, my son went into heart failure during a bout of illness and they called it myocarditis, his heart became enlarged and was not pumping like it should, however his heart actually recovered and he only had to stay on meds for a year. Now his heart is perfectally fine. As for you, I hope that if you indeed need a transplant then everything will work out.
 
no my sis was not with me at the time of the accident, could you give me more information about you child that was ill, information like age, male or female, how large of a heart and what the ejaction fraction is(pumping pecentage)

my medical condition has been called conjestive heart failure, myocarditus, cardiomyopathy, and one other one that just means heart problem or enlarged heart. but i have cardiomyopathy due to myocarditus.

thank you for you concern, i appreciate it.
 
Where have you gone to be evaluated? There's a lot of grain elevators in Iowa...what one are you near??
And have you gotten a second opinion?
 
my son had cardiomyopathy due to probable myocarditis. He was much younger than you, though. He was eight months old when he got the flu and they said it affected his heart. In the hospital they had him on some pretty hardcore drugs but he recovered abnormally well. The doctors told my husband and I that some people get better, some worse and some stay the same. If he got worse and it couldn't be managed with meds then he would need a transplant. Since he was doing so well, when he came home the only two drugs he was on were digoxin, which is for congestive heart failure and captopril which is a blood pressure medication. After going for follow-up echos several times he was weaned off of the medications and now they tell us that his heart is fine. I'm sure that we were very fortunate especially with him being so little.
 
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