A<unk>  transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage<unk>  failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed. , the most common procedure is to take a functioning<unk> , with or without both lungs, from a recently deceased organ donor (brain death is the standard) and implant it into the patient. The patient's own<unk>  is either removed and replaced with the donor<unk>  (orthotopic procedure) or, much less commonly, the recipient's diseased<unk>  is left in place to support the donor<unk>  (heterotopic, or "piggyback", transplant procedure). Approximately 3,500<unk>  transplants are performed each year worldwide, more than half of which are in the US. Post-operative survival periods average 15 years.<unk>  is not considered to be a cure for<unk>  disease; rather it is a life-saving treatment intended to improve the quality and duration of life for a recipient.
Heart transplantation
Cardiomyoplasty
Coronary artery bypass surgery
Arterial switch operation
Cellular cardiomyoplasty
Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation
Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery
Off-pump coronary artery bypass