OK, so Sam Prince doesn’t play in the NFL, but he’s come closer to it than many of America’s greatest prospects ever will.
Born with a severe heart defect, Prince’s chances of living for five hours, let alone five years, were grim, but through a combination of great medical care, good luck, and the abiding love of his family, he survived, and at eight years old had a successful heart transplant. Read the full story in Rowan Today.
By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Oct. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Some human livers are tougher than others, lasting more than 100 cumulative years between the organ’s original host and a transplant recipient, a new study discovers.
Understanding what makes these livers so resilient could help improve the donor pool by paving the way for expanded use of livers from older donors, the researchers said.
Read the full story in U.S. News & World Report.
Increasing BMI in young adult men is strongly associated with early atrial fibrillation as well as later worse clinical outcomes, including incident HF, stroke and all-cause mortality, among those diagnosed with AF, researchers reported.
Data suggest lower rates of all-cause mortality among adults with obesity and AF, a phenomenon known as the obesity paradox, Demir Djekic, MD, PhD, of the department of cardiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Read more in Healio.
People who reported sleeping 5 hours or less a night had a higher risk of multiple chronic diseases in the future, a longitudinal study in England showed.
Healthy 50-year-olds who slept 5 or fewer hours a night had a 30% greater risk of future multimorbidity over 25 years compared with those who slept 7 hours (HR 1.30, 95% CI 1.12-1.50, P<0.001), according to Séverine Sabia, PhD, of Université de Paris and University College London, and co-authors. Read more in MedPage Today.
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A person with advanced heart failure may often need a heart transplant or a mechanical heart pump to survive.
But white patients are twice as likely as Black patients to get this critically important care, a new study finds, and racial bias may be the reason why. Read the full story in U.S. News & World Report.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Roughly one in 10 adults with cystic fibrosis also had a diagnosis of heart failure, according to a real-world study of patient medical records reported here.
Among the roughly 15,000 cystic fibrosis patients, acute myocardial infarction (MI) and atrial fibrillation (Afib) were the other most commonly identified cardiac disorders, each present in about one in 20 patients in the analysis presented by Andres Cordova Sanchez, MD, of SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Read more in MedPage Today.
Oct. 18, 2022 – On a warm summer day in June, Amy Nadel sat in a waiting room at Johns Hopkins as one of her children was coming out of the operating room and another was preparing go in. And in a similar room in another part of the hospital, another family was sitting through the same thing. They were linked not by coincidence, but by one life-saving thing they were about to trade: kidneys. Read the full story in WedMD.
Adults with type 2 diabetes and a BMI of 21 kg/m2 to 27 kg/m2 have high likelihood of diabetes remission if they lose 10% of their starting weight, researchers reported.
“Type 2 diabetes is often considered to be ‘caused’ by a higher body mass index, and certainly there is a strong link between increasing weight, increasing BMI and the incidence of type 2 diabetes,” Alison C. Barnes, RD, lead research associate and dietitian at the Human Nutrition Research Centre at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., said during a presentation at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting. Read more in Healio.
Undergoing any surgery puts you at greater risk for infection. But with kidney transplants, you are often at even higher risk of infection from a range of viruses and bacteria, known as pathogens, because the medications you take afterward affect your immune system.
“Medications suppress your immune system so you will not reject the new kidney,” says Nikhil Agrawal, MD, a nephrologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. “This makes it harder for your body to fight off a viral or bacterial infection.”
Read the full story on CareDx.com.
A recent The Annals of Thoracic Surgery journal study reports that the survival rate of lung transplant (LT) recipients who experienced respiratory failure following infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was not significantly different than the survival rates among patients who received an LT due to other lung etiologies. Read more in News Medical Life Sciences.