Self-Care Agency and Associated Factors in Heart Transplant Patients

Abstract

148 heart transplant is used to treat heart failure patients whose medical treatment has failed and who have a life expectancy of less than two years.1 In Europe, 1,776 heart transplants and 2,884 heart transplants in North America were done in 2017.2 Data on heart transplants before 2011 have not been published by the Ministry of Health in Turkey. The Ministry of Health reported 659 patients have undergone heart transplant surgery between 2011 and 2019.3 Today, the number of heart transplants is increasing slightly. Self-Care Agency and Associated Factors in Heart Transplant Patients