“We celebrated how far we’ve come, but it’s also like, ‘Wow, it took this long for something like this to happen?’” Dr. Charlene Blake tells TODAY.com.
Dr. Amy Fiedler was finishing up a standard heart transplant surgery in December — putting the dressings on the patient and getting ready to transport her the intensive care unit — when she noticed something she’d never seen before. The room was entirely women.
Read the full story in USA Today.
Greg Olsen has always been a very public-facing figure. It dates all the way back to his days as a star tight end at Miami and his NFL playing days with the Bears, Panthers and Seahawks.
Now, Olsen is a member of the Fox broadcast crew and will be calling Super Bowl 57 alongside Kevin Burkhardt. Read the full story in Sporting News.
MANHATTAN (WABC) — A 10-year-old girl from the Bronx is celebrating her 1-year “Heart-a-versary.”
Delaney “Chi Chi” Soto got the best birthday gift last year when she received a much-needed heart transplant on January 31, 2022, at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone. Watch the story on WABC-TV News 7.
In 2020, CMS made a policy change to increase access to left ventricular assist devices. It could have unintended consequences in increasing disparities in who receives a heart transplant, according to a research team. Read more in Healio.
A research version of the artificial intelligence language model ChatGPT appropriately responded to a majority of suggested CVD prevention questions, including complex topics like cholesterol management despite statin therapy.
“There has been a lot of media attention about ChatGPT and people are looking at its ability to answer complex questions across many fields,” Ashish Sarraju, MD, a preventive cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic, told Healio. Read more in Healio.
It started with a phone call.
In 1985 I was a Fellow in transplant surgery at Stanford University Medical School, operating under the tutelage of Dr. Norman Shumway. Shumway is considered the “Father of Heart Transplantation,” a title fitting for my mentor who was a research-grounded, scientist-surgeon.
Read the full story in Forbes.
A database analysis showed 22% of heart transplant recipients who survived to 1 year and received follow-up were employed full time at 1 year and nearly 33% were employed at 2 years after transplant.
In a retrospective analysis of more than 10,000 heart transplant recipients who survived to 1 year with follow-up, researchers also found that employment at the time of listing or transplantation was strongly associated with employment after surgery. Read the full story in Healio.
32-year-old Colleen Barber has partnered with care teams at Loma Linda University International Heart Institute longer than she can remember — from receiving a heart transplant as a baby to recently undergoing a minimally invasive procedure to close a hole called an atrial septal defect (ASD) in her transplanted heart.
Structural interventional cardiologists Jason Hoff, MD, and Amr Mohsen, MD, frequently team up to perform heart procedures that involve repairing or replacing valves and treating other structural abnormalities like holes in the heart. Read the full story from Loma Linda University News.
Heart disease remained among the leading causes of death, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have exacerbated preexisting CVD morbidity-related racial/ethnic disparities, researchers reported.
In 2020, more than 3.3 million deaths were registered in the U.S., which exceeded the 2019 figure by more than 500,000 deaths, according to the American Heart Association’s annual Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics update. Read more in Healio.
In Florida, demand has never been higher.
Ten hospitals in the state perform heart transplants, each with their own criteria. As the year kicks off, more than 200 people are on the wait list, according to the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network. Read more in Medical Xpress.