#heart transplants

[reasonsforhope]

"In Australia, a man was kept alive for 100 days on an artificial heart made of titanium while a donor heart was eventually found.

This is the longest-ever period that a man has been kept alive by an artificial heart, giving its developers encouragement that it can play a major role in supporting waiting list patients whose hearts are failing.

5 months ago, a man in his forties received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) after experiencing heart failure. The TAH has no pumps, valves, or other moving parts susceptible to wear. Instead, magnetic levitation permits a single rotor to pump blood to the body through both ventricles.

He was able to leave the hospital even, before a donor heart was found that was transplanted successfully.

In a statement, BiVACOR, St. Vincent’s Hospital where the surgery was carried out, and Monash University which provided the grant funding for the development of the TAH, said that the result is a sign the artificial heart could potentially offer a long-term option for people suffering from heart failure.

BiVACOR’s founder, Australian bioengineer Daniel Timms, who invented the device, said it was “exhilarating to see decades of work come to fruition.”

“The entire BiVACOR team is deeply grateful to the patient and his family for placing their trust in our Total Artificial Heart,” he said in the statement. “Their bravery will pave the way for countless more patients to receive this lifesaving technology.”

In the United States, there are around 3,500 donor hearts made available every year for more than 4,400 people who join the waiting list.

The TAH has already been tested in an early feasibility study in search of eventual FDA approval. 5 patients received the device, CNN reports, with the first being last July, when a 58-year-old man suffering end-stage heart failure received the implant during surgery at Texas Medical Center.

The four others also received it successfully, and organizers hope to expand it to 15 patients."

-via Good News Network, March 18, 2025

[transplants-india]

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[martyryo]

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[paiigemahoney]

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

This image shows a decellularized heart, stripped of all native cells, leaving behind an intact vascular system and a scaffold that has been infused with stem cells.

One of the greatest limitations to organ transplantation derives from organ rejection caused by antibodies of the transplant recipient reacting to donor antigens on cell surfaces within the donor organ.

By re-cellularizing an decellularized organ with a patient’s own cells, the adverse immune response is eliminated.

[captainjackscoat]

ASEXUALS, ASSEMBLE!

And gothic horror fans and aromatics and general aspecs and basically just people who are willing to help out tbh.

So, one of my best friends (who I have talked about before on here, actually) is back in hospital. And it's quite serious this time, because she's going to have to go through chemotherapy. There's a good chance she'll be in hospital over Christmas, too.

I want to do something for her. I bought her a funko pop thing but I want to do something with actual meaning. (I mean yes her Aunt got her this FANTASTIC Christmas card that made me scream with both shock and delight on her behalf bc holy shit but I want to do something from me, too).

I want to make a scrapbook or a notebook or something, of messages and photos and art from all over. I want her to know she is loved by more than just the hospital staff.

She loves Frankenstein, and her absolute favourite artist is Brightgoat. If we could get a message for her, from Brightgoat, that would be incredible and it would get her so, so excited.

If you want to chip in with a message, or with art, or anything you can, everything is appreciated :)

(Btw for those wondering, this is my formerly terminally ill aroace friend who said "The only relationship I will ever have is with my health, and it's a very toxic one")

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A Tale of a Thousand Stars answers the age-old question: What if Hallmark movies were good?

[reasonsforhope]

"In a highly-anticipated world-first, the Texas Heart Institute has successfully implanted an artificial titanium heart that uses the same technology as bullet trains to pump blood mechanically throughout the body.

Called the Total Artificial Heart (TAH), the feat is seen as a major step in keeping people alive for longer and longer periods while they wait for heart transplants.

Texas Heart partnered with the medical tech company BiVACOR to create the TAH. It’s a titanium-constructed biventricular rotary blood pump with a single moving part that utilizes a magnetically levitated rotor that pumps the blood and replaces both ventricles of a failing heart.

The benefit of using magnetic levitation is that none of the moving parts ever scrape or slide against each other, reducing friction, and dramatically increasing the longevity of the device. But what’s really cool is the TAH can pump blood at a rate of 12 liters per minute, enough to allow an adult male to engage in exercise.

The first-in-human clinical study, overseen closely by the FDA, aims to evaluate the safety and performance of the BiVACOR TAH as a bridge-to-transplant solution for patients with severe bi or univentricular heart failure. Following this first implantation completed at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in the Texas Medical Center, four additional patients are to be enrolled in the study.

“The Texas Heart Institute is enthused about the groundbreaking first implantation of BiVACOR’s TAH. With heart failure remaining a leading cause of mortality globally, the BiVACOR TAH offers a beacon of hope for countless patients awaiting a heart transplant,” said Dr. Joseph Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Texas Heart Institute and National Principal Investigator on the research.

“We are proud to be at the forefront of this medical breakthrough, working alongside the dedicated teams at BiVACOR, Baylor College of Medicine, and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center to transform the future of heart failure therapy for this vulnerable population.”

Heart failure is a global epidemic affecting at least 26 million people worldwide, 6.2 million adults in the US, and is increasing in prevalence. Heart transplantations are reserved for those with severe heart failure and are limited to fewer than 6,000 procedures per year globally. Consequently, the US National Institutes of Health estimated that up to 100,000 patients could immediately benefit from mechanical alternatives.

The successful implantation of BiVACOR’s TAH highlights the potential of innovative technologies to address critical challenges in cardiac care, such as long transplantation waitlists.

“This achievement would not have been possible without the courage of our first patient and their family, the dedication of our team, and our expert collaborators at The Texas Heart Institute,” said Daniel Timms, founder and CTO of BiVACOR."

-Article via Good News Network, August 1, 2024. Video via 7News Australia, July 26, 2024.

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[yourdailyqueer]

Salvador Sobral

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Straight

DOB: 28 December 1989

Ethnicity: White - Portuguese

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician, activist

Note 1: Won Eurovision 2017 representing Portugal. In doing so, he gave Portugal its first ever win in the contest since its debut in 1964.

Note 2: Has a heart condition and could not perform in the first Eurovision rehearsals. He'd had an operation that forced him to rest ahead of the performance in the semi finals. Salvador has since had a heart transplant.

Note 3: Is intersex

[vampv0id]

Seeing him even a little dressed down makes me insane btw

[tsukasalover]

wxs ita bag!! (sorry for crappy quality)

[macaroni-stars]

"You knew him."

A statement, the truth of which Han never tried to hide, yet one that makes his blood freeze. He did know. More than anyone.

He knew Luke's hands, all calloused and chipped from farm labour but firm and warm and gentle, grounding him better than any magnetic anchor ever could, and even metal, new, thrilling, always warm to the skin from under the glove, familiar, like a piece of Falcon, a piece of home. He knew Luke's smile, big and bright, that always made his eyes crinkle and the faintest dimples appear on his cheeks, the smile that carried with it a piece of Tatooinian suns. Han knew his eyes, two big blue oases dragging him in like a dreary desperate man in a desert, which was not far from the truth of how he and Luke met altogether, the eyes that always kept flicking to his lips, the eyes that never lost their determined spark. He knew which words Luke liked and which he didn't, the faint consonants of Huttese still scraping Han's tongue, words of 'common not trade' echoing in his mind. Knew how Luke liked to get his hair cut and knew exactly when to offer it, when the bangs were getting a bit too long and poking in the eyes, or the gentle curl of darkening blond got in the way of lightsaber spins. Han knew how much time under a blazing sun akin to Tatooine's two it would take for Luke's freckles to shyly start blooming over his nose. He knew Luke's voice, knew every little twinge and shake and intonation of it, knew every way it could pronounce his name, from whisper to scream, from anger to bliss, Han would know it blind, somehow he would even know it deaf.

"I know him." Han wants to say, but the words die in his throat.

What if Luke's hands have gone soft from the meditation or other high-end solitare jedi practices Han had only heard rumours of, the metal now only feeling foreign and cold. What if his smile was crooked now, weary with time, and no longer remembered the sun, the dimples lost in the beard, if there was one. What if Luke's eyes went duller over the years, what if the blue disappeared, cutting off Han's water supply, leaving him to die in the desert, no longer having the beam of hope in the little sparkle behind those eyes. What if Luke had forgotten the language, what if he had no longer liked the jokes Han made. Perhaps he had picked up a new manner of speaking altogether, something more proper, high-class. What if his hair was now all grown and grey, messy with nobody to care for it, holding within it the pain and memories. What if his skin has gotten wrinkly and stale, the freckles now only existing in Han's latest memory forever and ever. What if Luke's voice had changed, deepened, roughened, or softened, gotten louder, or gotten quieter, and Han may never hear him say his name in that new voice.

'I know.' reverberates in his mind, once an echo to a lover's call, a declaration of a feeling yet untold.

"Yeah. I knew him." Han finally whispers, trying to keep his own changed voice from shaking. "I knew Luke."

[doctorweebmd]

ok my OTHER reflection:

on the one hand its really frustrating to see the posts about docs and healthcare in general on here be so narrow-minded. bad experiences with certain providers have lead to a huge spread of misinformation and mistrust with the whole system. which can and HAS lead to people avoiding 'evil' doctors for perfectly treatable illnesses and dying from them (the vaccine bullshit, anyone?)

but on the other hand. it is TERRIFYING how some of these docs practice medicine. at times i think 'are you just burned out and don't give a shit or are you straight up just stupid?' and i work in critical care. where quite literally every case is life or death. even in the academic sector where there is supposedly a standard of excellence, some doctors i would not let touch my loved ones with a ten foot pole.

and that sucks. i know this is the no nuance piss on the poor webbed site but 'the medical system and people that work for it are fallible and aspects of it are morally questionable at best/unethical at worst' AND 'the field of medicine exists to help people first and foremost and mistrusting/avoiding it can be detrimental in the long run' can and DO co-exist

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