Read the following passage and answer the questions given
at the end :
What I would like to be remembered for is not for doing the
first heart transplant in the world. I would like to be
remembered for the children I have treated for a variety of
abnormal heart diseases. That gives me greatest satisfaction.
Reconstruction of a congenitally abnormal heart, building
that into a normal one through surgery
that's real cardiac
surgery for me.
Questions:
(1) Who did the first heart transplant in the world ?
(ii) For what does the speaker wish to be remembered ?
(iii) What gives the greatest satisfaction to the speaker ?
(iv) For the speaker, what is real cardiac surgery ?
(v) Find the word from the passage which means the same
as "since birth'.
Answers
Answer:
Transplants are done when a child's heart does not work well and he or she won't survive without a new one. Doctors sometimes call this heart failure, or end-stage pediatric heart disease. They usually first try to treat heart failure with medicine, surgery, or other procedures. If those don't work, a child might need a heart transplant.
Transplanted hearts come from organ donors who have agreed (or their guardians have agreed) to donate their organs when they die. They choose to donate the organs because they want to help someone else who is sick.
Many kids who have heart transplants go on to live normal, healthy lives after they recover from surgery. They will take medicines for the rest of their lives to prevent the body from rejecting the heart. Rejecting means that the body's immune cells attack the new heart because they sense that it's foreign.