News tagged with donor heart


Helping kids with severe respiratory failure survive until lung transplantation

Adults with end-stage respiratory failure and pulmonary hypertension requiring ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) have been "bridged" toward lung transplantation with novel lung assist devices such as the Novalung. ...

Surgery created May 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists scan the human heart to create digital anatomical library

On April 18th JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) will publish a new video article by Dr. Paul A Iaizzo demonstrating the anatomical reconstruction of an active human heart. The research uses contrast-computed tomography (C ...

Medical research created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sibling study discovers genetic region linked to control of key blood-clotting protein

In 2006, the lab of Dr. David Ginsburg at the Life Sciences Institute put a call out for siblings attending the University of Michigan to donate blood for a study of blood-clotting disorders.

Medical research created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Swiss surgeons conduct complex multiple organ transplant

Surgeons in Zurich have carried out a complex, multi-organ transplant, hospital officials said Thursday, claiming the lessons learned would benefit patients with tumours that attack multiple organs.

Surgery created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UCLA doctors remove man's heart, replace it with total artificial heart

Imagine living without a heart. It is possible—if you have a new artificial heart pumping blood through your body. You can even go to the supermarket, watch your kid's soccer game or go on a hike.

Surgery created Dec 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rejected hearts now viable for transplantation after stress echo

Hearts previously rejected due to donors' age or other risk factors can now be declared viable for transplantation using pharmacological stress echo, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging Modalities ...

Cardiology created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kidney donation does not put donor at extra risk

(Medical Xpress) -- While people with reduced kidney function are more likely to develop cardiovascular conditions, that doesn’t necessarily ring true for those with reduced renal mass from donating a ...

Other created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experimental power pack allows man with artificial heart to leave hospital

Christopher Marshall lost his heart. Most of it, anyway. It was too damaged to keep him alive, so surgeons decided it had to come out. On Feb. 6, in a six-hour operation, surgeons did just that and then implanted an artificial ...

Cardiology created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Engineering whole organs: Closing in on a potential solution to the organ donor shortage?

A new technique involving the use of an artificial scaffold into which a patient's own stem cells are inserted, turning it into a fully functional organ, could offer a potential solution to the donor shortage crisis, according ...

Medical research created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Living kidney donors at no increased risk of heart disease

Living kidney donors are at no greater risk of heart disease than the healthy general population, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.

Cardiology created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patient's lifesaving donor heart arrives 'warm and beating' inside experimental device

(Medical Xpress) -- When Rob Evans' new donor heart arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the organ wasn't frozen on ice inside a cooler, as is typical. Instead, it was delivered in an experimental device that kept ...

Other created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0