Anthony Depasquale’s lung transplant almost didn’t happen.
He had been in the hospital this spring with complications from COVID-19 on a ventilator and in a medically-induced coma for months. Read the full story in USA Today.
What does 20-year-old Sam Prince remember about his childhood?
“I was stuck in a bubble for the first eight years of my life,” Sam says in a new NFL360 video(link is external and opens in a new window) about his mission to raise more awareness of organ donation. Born with a severe heart defect that required two surgeries before he turned 1, Sam couldn’t go to school during that time and couldn’t make a lot of friends. Read more from Columbia Irving Medical Center.
As an organ transplant recipient, you already “know” several things:
Read the full story at CareDx.com.
Consuming more than 20% of total daily calories from ultra-processed foods was associated with faster decline in cognition and executive function, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.
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Columbus-based Ohio State University’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is the first in the world to study the clinical benefits of a device used to treat diastolic heart failure.
Diastolic heart failure occurs when the heart muscle becomes stiff and does not allow blood to flow from the lungs into the heart. This causes blood to flood the first lower left heart chamber, then the upper left chamber and into the lungs.
Read more in Becker’s Hospital Review.
Among patients previously hospitalized with COVID-19, researchers estimated that up to 11% had fibrotic patterning, according to a study published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Read the full story in Healio.
What life is like following heart and double-lung transplant
Slowly, you begin to ascend. At first, you can’t even see the apex of your destination, so already you’re feeling anxious. As the climb steepens, you feel ambivalent, wanting to brave it out but also wondering if it’s too late to get off this ride.
At the top, your stomach drops, your heart pounds, your fists are glued to the safety bar, your eyes widen, and you whisper a final prayer, “Oh God, help me!” Read the full article from Pulmonary Hypertension News.
Cardiovascular Surgeons Perform the Health System’s First Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplant
UC San Francisco surgeons have performed the health system’s 20,000th solid organ transplant, making it just the third in the nation to reach that milestone. The surgery also marked UCSF Health’s first donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant, a procedure performed by only about twenty health systems in the U.S. Read more from UCSF Health.
Having spent over 30 years of my career in diabetes, first as a practicing diabetologist and later as a diabetes researcher, I’ve met many people with diabetes. And while diabetes care has evolved significantly over that time, I’m amazed that for many people, daily insulin management remains just as complex and manual as it was all those years ago, particularly for individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Read more in MedPage Today.
A multinational collaborative report of global disease trends and risk factors shows CVD remains the leading cause of death and hypertension remains the leading modifiable risk factor for premature CV death worldwide, researchers reported.
Read the full story in Healio.