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Protected by its own nutrients and blood supply, a beating heart supported by an investigational organ preservation device was successfully transplanted into a 47-year-old man with congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension on Sunday, April 8.
Very cool stuff! This pioneering surgery took place at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine using a heart […]
“I never thought I would get to see this mother’s day,” Stacey says.
What we don’t go through for our children! On this day, a Pennsylvania mommy celebrates what she thought might not ever come, her first mother’s day. Stacey Doyle delivered her first born son, Owen, last May. The days that […]
An engineer in California got the gift he was waiting for. Mike Iwuchukwu was placed on the heart transplant list 5 years ago. He had a condition called noncompaction syndrome, where the heart appears almost sponge like.
This past Monday, officials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California announced that Mr. Iwuchukwu received his second […]
Life has forever been changed for 5 year old Joseph Greenwood. He was a happy, healthy young boy until March, when he unexpectantly collapsed.
After CPR by his father, being taken via 911 to the closest hospital and then airlifted to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, life saving decisions had to be […]
Need an organ transplant? All it takes is money and the willingness to take risks. Buying an organ, however, doesn’t guarantee a long, healthy life. I’d be afraid of any infectious diseases that may come from purchased organs but sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils. Here’s how much a heart would […]
Breann Wusterbarth fell sick in February with what appeared to be a cold and ear infection. Within a week, the 20-month-old was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. A month later, a Berlin Heart ventricle assist device was implanted while Breann and her family waited for a donor heart. Yesterday, Breann received her new heart. Fortunately, 80% […]
Last month, 46-year-old Gary Onufer was diagnosed from irreversible cardiogenic shock and was close to death. To save him, he had a Total Artificial Heart transplant nine days later on February 12. He did so well on it that he was even able to ride a stationary bike 25 minutes a day and take walks […]
In December last year, Dale Shippam attempted to summit Mount Vinson Massif in Antarctica. What made his journey even more incredible was that he’d received a heart transplant eight years ago and was climbing with his cardiologist, Dr. Heather Ross.
While you might think mountain climbing would be off limits to most people with heart disease, […]
The March 2007 issue of Scientific American has an amazing illustrated explanation of how left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) work. LVADs are typically used for patients who require heart transplants and are used in the interim until a heart is available. There are three generations of LVADs:
First generation - pulsatile LVAD in which blood is […]
Perfect for Valentine’s Day, the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s has a Healthy Heart Gift Card you can present to anyone who’d like to have their cardiovascular fitness assessed. For $399, the gift card entitles the holder to:
A wellness profile - cardiovascular risk assessment, depression survey, diet survey, exercise and activity survey, cardiovascular health […]
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