Abstract
The surgical life-giving therapy of cardiac transplantation has evolved from being experimental to being commonplace in an extraordinarily short time. While diagnosis of the need for exchanging a sick heart for a well heart and technical skill to perform the exchange have been available almost from the beginning of experimental surgery in dogs, the difference in outcome came with the introduction of cyclosporine in 1980. Baylor University Medical Center's Cardiothoracic Transplantation Service began in 1986. This article presents reactions of 86 professionals, patients, and their social networks to this particular cardiac transplantation program.
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