You’d think it would be a bad idea to transplant a heart from a donor infected with hepatitis C. But apparently, it’s considered acceptable if the heart transplant recipient is older or already infected with the hepatitis C virus.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that regardless of the recipient’s original health status, a heart transplant from a hepatitis C positive donor results in lower survival for the recipient.

16.9% of recipients of virus-tainted hearts died after one year as compared to 8.2% of those who received non-infected hearts
25% of hepatitis C-infected heart recipients …read more