By Erik Swain
Among cardiac arrest survivors, women were more likely to report anxiety, depressive symptoms and PTSD than men, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology’s Acute Cardiovascular Care congress.
“Cardiac arrest occurs with little or no warning and it’s common to feel anxious and low afterwards,” Jesper Kjaergaard, MD, PhD, DMSc, consultant cardiologist at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark, said in a press release. Read more in Healio.
By Julie S. Keenan
Cardiac structure and function significantly correlated with risk of kidney failure with replacement therapy, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
“Heart disease and kidney disease are known to interact with each other. This phenomenon is called cardiorenal syndrome.
Read the full article in Healio.
By Sue Hughes
The relatively recent innovation of heart transplantation after circulatory death of the donor is increasing the number of donor hearts available and leading to many more lives on the heart transplant waiting list being saved. Experts agree it’s a major and very welcome advance in medicine.
However, some of the processes involved in one approach to donation after circulatory death has raised ethical concerns and questions about whether they violate the “dead donor rule” — a principle that requires patients be declared dead before removal of life-sustaining organs for transplant.
Read the full article in Medscape.
By Erik Swain
NEW ORLEANS — Most patients at high or very high CV risk do not achieve guideline-recommended LDL goals, according to data from the Family Heart Database presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.
“We know that individuals living with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) are too often undiagnosed and undertreated, and our goal is to change this,” Mary P. McGowan, MD, FNLA, assistant professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, lipid researcher at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and chief medical officer at The Family Heart Foundation in Pasadena, California, told Healio.
Read the full article on Healio.com.
The following is the summary of “National outcomes of bridge to multiorgan cardiac transplantation using mechanical circulatory support” published in the January 2023 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Melehy, et al.
Read the article by Physician’s Weekly.
Over three months, Steve Ulrich and Leigh Rubin drew strength and inspiration from each other. Rubin also drew cartoons for his nationally syndicated comic.
By Katherine Cook
PORTLAND, Oregon — A Hood River man has a new heart and deepened appreciation for a lifelong friend.
Steve Ulrich, 66, received a heart transplant in December at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Southwest Portland. But before getting on a transplant waiting list, doctors told Ulrich he would need someone to commit to being a temporary, in-house caregiver to him for three months. Ulrich reached out to his close friend, Leigh Rubin. Read or watch the story from KGW8.
More donated hearts could be suitable for transplantation if they are kept functioning within the body for a short time following the death of the donor, new research has concluded.
The organs are kept functioning by restarting local circulation to the heart, lungs and abdominal organs – but, crucially, not to the brain – of patients whose hearts have stopped beating for five minutes or longer and have been declared dead by circulatory criteria (donation after circulatory death, or DCD). Read more in EurekAlert!
By Zulekha Nathoo
A toddler in need of a heart got a corridor full of cheers while heading into surgery.
As 15-month-old Mark Clouse Jr. was wheeled through the hospital to the operating room at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio, medical staff showered the little boy with applause, affection and soap bubbles.
Read the full story in USA Today.
A Culver City teen who has dreams of being an NBA star complained of a stomach ache, two weeks later he got a heart transplant.
SAN DIEGO — A teenage boy with big NBA dreams is recovering from a life-threatening scare.
14-year-old Mario Luna III says a stomachache turned into needing a heart transplant.
The teen says he’s loves playing basketball with friends and anyone who enjoys getting to play some ball. “Just the fun and aggression because it gets good when it’s starting to have fun,” said Luna.
Read or watch the full story on CBS News 8 San Diego.
In December at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, a trailblazing all-women team performed a heart transplant, marked by a photo capturing the moments after they completed the five-hour procedure. NBC’s Kaylee Hartung reports for TODAY.
Watch the story here.