Too Ill for Typical Transplants, Woman Gets a Pig Kidney and Heart Pump Instead
(MedPage Today) -- A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the first-ever patient to undergo combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery, doctors announced.
The patient, Lisa Pisano, had heart failure and end... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - April 25, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Grandmother Becomes Second Patient to Receive Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig
NYU Langone Health surgeons performed the transplant after implanting a mechanical heart pump in the severely ill patient. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Genetic Engineering Medical Devices Implants Surgery and Surgeons Doctors Transplants New York University Langone Health Source Type: news
She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Patient Gets First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Plus Heart Pump
WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- New Jersey native Lisa Pisano was staring down the end of her days.The 54-year-old had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, but several chronic medical conditions excluded her as a candidate for heart and kidney... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 24, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Heart-Liver Surgery May Help Patients Excluded from Transplant List
Patients with both heart and liver diseases are usually turned away from organ transplant lists. A new dual procedure aims to give them another chance. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA Advisors' COIs; Ongoing Ukraine Heart Transplants; N.J. Cardiologist's $2M Fraud
(MedPage Today) -- It turns out the FDA advisory committee charged with reviewing the TriClip G4 had multiple financial ties to Abbott, the device manufacturer, creating a question of potential conflicts of interest (COI). (KFF Health News)
FDA... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - April 16, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Usefulness Questioned for Transplant Center Report Cards
(MedPage Today) -- Public report cards for heart transplant centers are under fire for not being meaningful -- potentially even misrepresentative of care quality -- as a given center's ratings may vary wildly from year to year, a study found... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - April 11, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
What Experts Really Think About Diet Soda
Growing up, Olivia Dreizen Howell, 39, “lived on” diet soda. So did her family. At a family reunion in 1996, everyone sported T-shirts with their shared surname in Diet Coke-can font. “We drank Diet Coke, Diet ginger ale, and Diet Sprite like water—there was no difference in our household,” she says.
Like many, Howell believed that sugar-free soda was a benign choice. But the latest research casts doubt on that assumption, linking diet drinks to mood disorders, fatty liver development, autoimmune diseases, and cancer, to name a few.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perri Ormont Blumberg Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
From blunt cardiac injury to heart transplant following motorcycle collision - Van Horn AL, Burgess JR.
Traumatic coronary artery occlusion and dissection is an exceedingly rare complication of blunt cardiac injury (BCI), though it has been previously noted in a number of case reports. However, it can also lead to heart transplant, which to our knowledge has... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 3, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
SPECT/CT algorithm predicts heart failure hospitalizations
This study represents the first evidence, to our knowledge, demonstrating that integrating SPECT MPI into an AI-based risk assessment algorithm significantly improves the prediction of hospitalizations due to [heart failure],” the group wrote. The research was published March 28 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide, with prevalence projected to increase by almost 50% from 2012 to 2030, the authors wrote. They noted that identifying patients who are at risk for heart failure exacerbation can open opportunities for prevention strateg...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
The Organ Is Still Working. But It ’s Not in a Body Anymore.
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ted Alcorn Tags: your-feed-science Surgery and Surgeons Doctors Transplants Liver Organ Donation Blood Lungs Heart Medical Devices Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill) Source Type: news
The Technique Reshaping Organ Transplantation
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ted Alcorn Tags: your-feed-science Surgery and Surgeons Doctors Transplants Liver Organ Donation Blood Lungs Heart Medical Devices Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill) Source Type: news
What It Means if You Have Borderline High Cholesterol —And What to Do About It
Almost 25 million adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol, which puts them at a higher risk for a heart attack or stroke in the next decade. But a much bigger portion have what’s called borderline high cholesterol, an in-between place that’s not quite high, but not quite within a normal range.
Here’s what to know about borderline cholesterol.
What is borderline cholesterol?
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High cholesterol is defined as having a total cholesterol number of 240 mg/dL or above. Someone has borderline cholesterol, meanwhile, when their total cholesterol is in th...
Source: TIME: Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Klein Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
InnovationRx: Base Editing Pioneer Nicole Gaudelli Joins GV
Plus: eGenesis, the startup behind the first pig-human kidney transplant, is targeting hearts and livers next. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katie Jennings, Forbes Staff Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science Editors' Pick editors-pick Newsletter No Paywall no-paywall premium Source Type: news
How Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Progresses in Adults
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common form of genetic heart disease worldwide. Researchers have estimated that up to 1 in 200 people have the condition, which is characterized by an abnormal thickening of the walls of the heart. This thickening can make it difficult for the heart to pump blood.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be a deadly disease, and there was a time when it was largely untreatable. But the last 20 years have witnessed a sea change in the condition’s management—a change that has led to an estimated 10-fold decrease in deaths.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
