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Heart transplants fail if patients get too weak. New program tries inpatient prehab
Heart transplant patients often become too weak while waiting, leading to disqualification. A new inpatient prehab program at Banner–University Medical Center Phoenix, led by Radha Gopalan, aims to address this issue.
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