My father is 58 years old and suffered a heart attack four years ago. Prior to that, he was the first pancreas/kidney transplant recipient (juvenile diabetic) in Oklahoma. The transplant was done in 1991 at Oschner's Clinic, New Orleans.
After the heart attack, he was told he had 40 percent damage to his heart. This was in 2002. Last year he had some more work done on his transplanted organs (in New Orleans) and at that time they performed another ultrasound, which confirmed the 40 percent damage and an EF of around 37 percent. He started seeing a local cardiologist about six months ago who did another ultrasound and pronounced that, nope, my father really had sixty percent damage and an EF of 27 percent.
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