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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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Eventual rejection mostly. From what I know.
Eventually we'll be able to just extract a little tissue from the person, apply stem cell magic, and build a replacement part out of the person's own cells. Which would hopefully completely eliminate rejection issues.