Beynost. Heart transplant recipient ten years ago, he looks back on his operation

"I was practically never sick, but at 38, a regional basketball player in Rillieux-la-Pape, I had a medical examination as part of sports medicine which diagnosed cardiac myopathy, a disease unknown in the 1990s," says Jean-Jacques Charvet.

Monitored by specialists at the neurocardiology hospital in Bron for many years, the doctor told him that his heart was atrophying. He was forced to stop playing tennis and basketball. "I then started practicing tai chi chuan, a sport that was much less violent and better suited to my illness."

After several annual visits to specialist doctors who...

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