Strategies For Preventing And Treating Kissing Bug Disease

Heart Transplant

When symptoms of cardiac issues appear because of the kissing bug disease, patients might have to consider a heart transplant. The parasites can damage the heart to the extent that it is not functioning properly, and other interventions have not fully worked. Getting a heart transplant is one of the most serious operations an individual can have, but if successful, it can lengthen the patient's life and give them a quality of life they did not have before the surgery. One of the downsides to a transplant is the length of time on the waiting list for a donor heart. It is not like other organ transplants that may be able to use living donors, like the kidney or liver. Additionally, the patient will need to take anti-rejection medication for the rest of their life to help the body accept the new organ.

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