the 25-year-old Line Hoffmeyer was in 2012 carried out a heart transplant, which she got a brand new heart
Her old heart was too big, and how beautiful it may sound to have a big heart, could her not pump enough blood around the body.
It has resulted in to Line with its new heart can expect to die much earlier than her girlfriends.
On the Hjerteforeningens website statistics show that one in live, on average, 15,6 years, when you’ve had a heart transplant. Although does she expect to live between 15 and 25 years yet.
– of course, I am more note that I should not make stupid decisions, she says the Line for the Extra Magazine.
– You think: is it smart to regret you, is it right?
But it can also have positive sides not to be old.
– of Course, it is a pity, that I not become just as old as my girlfriends
I let go enough to get wrinkles. It must be the bonus.
the Doctor’s judgment: – She has been lucky
According to professor dr.with and chief physician at the cardio-medical clinic at Rigshospitalet Finn Gustafsson,, Line has beaten the toughest odds.
– If you get on the waiting list, do it, and get a new heart, then you are just really lucky, ” he says
in Fact, it is so bad that hospitals must use four times as many hearts as they have now.
– the Lack of hearts is chronic and all over the world.
– It is frustrating that you as a doctor cannot give a new heart. especially when you know how many hearts there are out there that is not being donated, because people are not written up in the donorregistret, says the chief physician and at the same time calls people to take a position on whether they will be organdonoerer.
In Denmark, there is annually around 30 heart transplantations, and on average there are a year of waiting for a new heart.
In rare cases, the body can reject and reject a new heart.
– We use a powerful medications that suppress the immune system, so the body is in afstøder the heart.
– But there are also a number of side effects of the medication include increased risk for infections and cancer, which is one of the bagsiderne by the procedure.
the Drug, you should take the whole life.
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Line has chosen to share his whole story on his blog.
Here she writes among other things:
’the panic is not over, that I must leave early goodbye to all that, I can li’. The panic is all about, how I do when everything I like. And I like so much. So how do you do? Makes sure to reach the whole of the party of no to miss of another party? It’s probably not, and that is the hardest realization for a born FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out, red.) like me.’
Facts about heart transplant
the patients were in 2017 transplanted with a heart donation. This is four fewer than the year before. In 2007-2017, has found 283 heart transplantations take place in Denmark.
the danes stood on the waiting list to be transplanted with the heart donation in January 2017. The number was reduced to 11 by the end of the year.
heart patients died in the same year, while standing on the waiting list for a heart donation.
years is the average survival time for patients who have implanted a heart donation.
was the year of the first heart transplant in Denmark, at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.
the year was the age of the oldest organ donor in 2017.
persons were listed in the Donorregistret pr. 1. January 2018.
the patients were in 2017 transplanted with one or more organs from both living and deceased donors: 25 got a heart, the 57 got a live, 35 got lungs, 257 received a kidney (including 92 from a living donor). 9 kidney transplant recipients was transplanted a pancreas at the same time.
patients were last year, transplanted with organs from deceased donors.
Sources: His Eiskjær, transplantationsansvarlig chief physician at Aarhus Universitetshospitals adeling for heart disease, Donorregistret, Sandiatransplant and transplantation centres at the university hospital and the universitetshospitalerne in Aarhus and Odense
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The Line has donorhjertet been a big taboo.
– I’m talking almost not with my friends about it.
But when she finally opens up about it, she gets mostly the same reactions.
– You can’t avoid getting a lot of pity every time he tells it. But I don’t longer have.
