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When does life end? New organ donation strategy fuels debate
On a chilly holiday Monday in January 2020, a medical milestone passed largely unnoticed. In a New York City operating room, surgeons gently removed the heart from a 43-year-old man who had died and shuttled it steps away to a patient in desperate need of a new one. More than 3500 people in the United States receive a new heart each year. But this case was different—the first of its kind in the country. “It took us 6 months to prepare,” says Nader Moazami, surgical head of heart transplantation at New York University (NYU) Langone Health, where the operation took place. The run-up included oversight from an ethi...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Cardiovascular imaging techniques for the assessment of coronary artery disease
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2022 Aug 2;83(8):1-11. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2022.0176. Epub 2022 Aug 19.ABSTRACTCoronary artery disease continues to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recent clinical trials have not demonstrated any mortality benefit of percutaneous coronary intervention compared to medical management alone in the treatment of stable angina. While invasive coronary angiography remains the gold standard for diagnosing coronary artery disease, it comes with significant risks, including myocardial infarction, stroke and death. There have been significant advances in imaging techniques to diagnose ...
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - September 6, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Raheel Ahmed Caleb Carver James Rj Foley Graham J Fent Pankaj Garg David P Ripley Source Type: research

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