DAVID WAHLBERG
Dr. Matt Wolff became a cardiologist, treating heart disease, before learning he has a genetic heart condition that can cause people to die suddenly as his father did at age 50.
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Wolff gets a checkup at UW Hospital three months after his heart-kidney transplant from Dr. Fahad Aziz, right, and Dr. Kurtis Swanson. "It's weird to be on the other side, laying on the table," he said. "You kind of want to tell them, 'Go that way, buddy.'"
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Dr. Matt Wolff walks near his home north of Cross Plains. He exercised regularly before his genetic heart condition caused heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms so life-threatening that he needed a heart-kidney transplant. He's feeling much better today, he said.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Wolff goes to an appointment at UW Health's Transplant Clinic. He is one of five people at UW Hospital and 289 in the country who got a heart-kidney transplant last year.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Before he got a heart-kidney transplant in October, Wolff and his wife, Kelly, thought they wouldn't be able to continue living at their home and sizable property near Cross Plains. Now they've decided to stay.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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