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Topic: Heart Transplant
My Two Cents: The Backstory
Clarksville, TN – This week I’ve had the privilege of working with a young lady I had never met.
If you followed our series of articles, “Miscarriage, One Woman’s Story” we brought you the story of Candace Baker and her recent miscarriage.
Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to tell the real stories of real people and their tragedy and triumph. Their pain and grief. Their victory and defeat.
Hank and Candace meeting for the first time.
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American Heart Association says Drug therapy, LVAD helps Severe Heart Failure Patients recover function
American Heart Association Meeting Report
New Orleans, LA – More than a third of advanced heart failure patients treated with a combination of an artificial heart assist device, called a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, and intensive drug therapy have recovered their heart function enough to allow removal of the LVAD device, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2016.
Advanced heart failure patients who are treated with an artificial heart assist device combined with intensive drug therapy may recover their heart function (American Heart Association)
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American Heart Association says Eliminating Blood Test may increase availability of Donor Hearts
American Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report
Dallas, TX – A blood test that leads to the rejection of donor hearts may be unnecessary in predicting whether a heart transplant will succeed or fail, according to new research in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.
“Heart transplantation is an incredible therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure, but there are only 2,000-2,400 transplants each year. A lot of focus has been on finding ways to sign up more people as organ donors, but there is also a problem in that only an average of one in three donor hearts are placed,” said Snehal R. Patel, M.D., senior author of the study and assistant professor of medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, New York.
Heart Illustration. (American Heart Association)
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American Heart Association says 3D image may provide better size match for Child Heart Transplants
American Heart Association Meeting Report
Orlando, FL – A new 3D computer modeling system may significantly improve a surgeon’s ability to select the best sized donor heart for children receiving heart transplants, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2015.
Transplant centers currently assess compatibility of a potential donor heart by comparing the donor weight to the recipient weight and then picking an upper and lower limit based on the size of the patient’s heart on chest X-ray. But the assessment is not precise and variations in size and volume can have a major effect on the recipient’s outcome.
Models of multiple children’s hearts who were born with congenital heart defects, used for surgical planning. (Cardiac 3D Print Lab, Phoenix Children’s Hospital Heart Center)
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American Heart Association report shows Wealthiest not Sickest Patients may have edge in Organ Transplants
American Heart Association Meeting Report: Abstract 15991
Orlando, FL – Registering with more than one organ transplant center appears to give an edge to wealthy patients over those with the most medical need, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2015.
Researchers studied the national database of organ donors from 2000 to 2013 and found that patients who simultaneously listed at more than one center had higher transplant rates, lower death rates while waiting, were wealthier and were more likely to be insured.
Raymond Givens, M.D., Ph.D. – Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellow, Columbia University Medical Center, New York. (American Heart Association)
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Suzanne Simpson: One Woman’s Heart – Part Five
The Vanderbilt Extraction Team had taken flight, to retrieve the heart Suzanne needed.
There was excitement in the air, as family and friends gathered in the waiting room.
David and Suzanne spent some final moments together, as the medications began to sedate her. He sat in the bed with his wife and hugged her.
He told her he loved her and he would be waiting for her when the operation ended.
David would not be able to hold back his emotions much longer.
Suzanne said, “It’s ok.”
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Suzanne Simpson: One Woman’s Heart-Part Four
David went back into the room to be with his wife. Doctors and nurses were attending to her, monitoring her condition.
Just as the surgical team was about to call the operation off, a member of the medical team burst into the room.
“They’ve taken off. It’s a go!”
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Suzanne Simpson: One Woman’s Heart – Part Two
Climbing the stairs was too difficult. “Maybe I’m just a little out of shape” she thought.
Her doctor said, “the EKG doesn’t look good” and ordered another round of tests. He scheduled her for an echocardiogram, ultra-sound and more. When the nurses had her all hooked up, they told her to sit down.
“We’ll be right back” they said.
When the nurses returned, they told Suzanne they weren’t going to go through with the tests. They had seen something that bothered them, and called her doctor. He wanted her to see a cardiologist immediately.
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An Incredible Blessing
Clarksville, TN – In over forty years of journalism, I have had the opportunity to meet and interview hundreds of celebrities, politicians, and everyday people. I’ve covered some of the most tragic and triumphant events that have occurred in our community, but never have I been so blessed and inspired as I have been with the story of Suzanne Simpson.
Suzanne Simpson is a heart transplant recipient.
I’ve known “Suzie” since we were both at Austin Peay State University in the early seventies. She was just out of Clarksville High School, and I was fresh in town from Military Academy. «Read the rest of this article»
American Heart Association reports that it’s OK to limit pre-dental procedure Antibiotics to high risk Heart Patients
Dallas, TX – The incidence of infective endocarditis among dental patients in Olmsted County, MN did not increase after new guidelines called for giving preventive antibiotics before dental procedures only to those at greatest risk of complications, according to independent research published in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal.
Infective endocarditis Description: External link is a bacterial infection of the heart lining, heart valve or blood vessel. «Read the rest of this article»
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