Cardiology
Innovative 'heart in a box' technology gives hope to transplant patients
A new heart transplant technique is reducing waiting lists for patients in Australia and potentially around the world.
Sep 6, 2022
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News tagged with heart transplantation
HIV & AIDS
World's first HIV-positive to HIV-positive heart transplant performed
The world's first HIV-positive to HIV-positive heart transplant has been successfully performed at Montefiore Health System in the Bronx. The patient, in her sixties, suffered from advanced heart failure and received the ...
Jul 26, 2022
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Surgery
With improved pain control, marrow donors can gift stem cells without undue side effects or opioid use
Sharing gifts is a favorite way to sustain connection across peoples and cultures worldwide, but with bone marrow donation the gift-giving act is accompanied by uncomfortable side effects to the donor, making it a truly selfless ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Cardiology
Study finds risk disparity for Black children who have stroke after heart transplant
Black children who underwent heart transplant surgery for the first time were more than three times as likely to die after six months than white children, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American ...
Jul 13, 2022
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Medical research
Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead
New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.
Jul 12, 2022
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Cardiology
Reducing stroke risk in children with severe heart failure
Hospitals across the country are teaming up to improve outcomes in kids who need mechanical heart pumps for congenital heart disease or heart failure.
Jun 23, 2022
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Medications
Researchers identify, test novel drug that may stop heart failure progression
Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have developed a novel drug molecule that targets T-cells causing inflammation in heart failure patients, stopping further progression ...
Jun 23, 2022
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Surgery
Researchers publish findings of first successful transplant of genetically modified pig heart into human patient
Six months ago, University of Maryland School of Medicine surgeon-scientists successfully implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a 57 year-old patient with terminal heart disease in a first-of-its-kind surgery. It ...
Jun 22, 2022
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Cardiology
Outcomes worse with reinterventions after congenital cardiac surgery
Among transplant-free survivors requiring predischarge reinterventions after congenital cardiac surgery, those with persistent major residua have significantly worse long-term outcomes, according to a study published in the ...
Jun 21, 2022
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Cardiology
Virtual biopsy set to transform heart transplant care
The days of heart transplant survivors undergoing invasive biopsies could soon be over after a new MRI technique has proven to be safe and effective; reducing complications and hospital admissions.
May 29, 2022
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