These disappointments, plus the decision by the Department of Health to classify heart transplants as "human experimentation" (so that the costs of the operations are to be taken up by the hospitals), caused heart transplants to quickly fall into a period of assessment of previous experience.
加上衛生署決議將換心列為「人體試驗」的一部分，龐大的醫療費用須由各醫院全額負擔，這股熱潮也就在「失敗挫折」與「經濟考慮」雙重陰影下，消褪無蹤了。