There were over 4,000 heart transplants last year, the 11th consecutive year those numbers set a new record, and yet there are over 3,000 people waiting for a heart transplant.
"As soon as I came back, he took care of both us, my daughter and myself, for the next two weeks and then he had to start chemo treatments again," Zuleyma said through tears. "The devices themselves have gotten smaller and we understand how to manage them better, so people can have them and live normal lives, can go back to work, can go back to most normal activities," explained Zuleyma's doctor, Eugene DePasquale, the Medical Director of the Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at the University of Southern California.
"A lot of patients may die while waiting for a heart and this is something that we can say, 'you know what? We are going to schedule this for next Tuesday, you're going to get the pump, you're going to get stronger, you're going to go home, you're going to recover, you're going to live your life and then you're going to come back when we have a donor heart for you.'," DePasquale said.
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