KMBC: Kansas City Navy Veteran Shares Journey After Receiving New Heart

David Miller couldn't shake the feeling “something wasn't right” in his body. Then he learned he was in heart failure.

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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and some of the symptoms can be easy to brush off — until they become too serious to ignore.

That was the reality for David Miller, a Kansas City Navy Veteran, who sought care at Saint Luke's when his persistent symptoms wouldn't go away. That day he learned he was in heart failure. Within a week he learned he needed a new heart.

KMBC talked with David and Dr. Andrew Kao, medical director of heart transplants at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, about David's journey.