#heart’s medicine

[mya-blazing]

Long time, no post in YT

[nsstels]

Так, а теперь ребята, который шарят за Heart’s medicine(ваше время пришло). Чо вы скажете, если я в будущем попробую создать Визуальную новеллу по мотивам игры, в которой ГГ(MC) будет наша любимая Элисон, а в фаворитах Коннор, Дэниал и мой ОС?

Я понимаю, что я рискую испортить прекрасную игру(хотя, блин, игра останется каноном я просто фан-штуку делаю…)… но мне так хочется сделать развилки…

В общем да, что скажете: Идея дрянь или стоит подумать?

[incorrectsnuggfordquotes]

I really feel like history peaked with my birth and subsequent existence.

Ruth Phelps

[useless-catalanfacts]

The University of Barcelona's Medicine Faculty has temporarily installed a giant heart made by the Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, with the building's columns acting as the ribcage.

The objective of this work of art is to raise awareness about cardiovascular illnesses, which are the leading cause of death worldwide.

The work is titled El cor secret (The Secret Heart). The heart measures 13 metres tall and 10 metres wide, and weighs 150 kg. It's made of synthetic materials and painted by hand. It had previously been shown in Germany in 2014 and was supposed to arrive to Plensa's home city sooner, but it was delayed because of covid. Instead, in 2020, Plensa donated one of his famous head sculptures to this same building, to thank medicine professionals and students for their work during the pandemic.

[velo-cats]

Pebble Heart

[reasonsforhope]

"A study looking at the bearers of artificial hearts found that a subset of them can regenerate heart muscle tissue—the first time such an observation has ever been made.

It may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure, the deadliest non-communicable disease on Earth. The results were published in the journal Circulation.

A team of physician-scientists at the University of Arizona’s Heart Center in Tucson led a collaboration of international experts to investigate whether heart muscles can regenerate.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart failure affects nearly 7 million US adults and is responsible for 14% of deaths per year. There is no cure for heart failure, though medications can slow its progression. The only treatment for advanced heart failure, other than a transplant, is a pump replacement through an artificial heart, called a left ventricular assist device, which can help the heart pump blood.

“Skeletal muscle has a significant ability to regenerate after injury. If you’re playing soccer and you tear a muscle, you need to rest it, and it heals,” said Hesham Sadek, director of the University’s Sarver Heart Center.

It was previously thought that when a heart muscle is injured, it could never grow back.

“Irrefutable evidence of heart muscle regeneration has never been shown before in humans,” he said. “This study provided direct evidence.”

The project began with tissue from artificial heart patients provided by colleagues at the University of Utah Health and School of Medicine led by Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, and a pioneer in left ventricular assist device-mediated recovery.

Teams in Sweden and Germany used their innovative method of carbon dating human heart tissue to track whether these samples contained newly generated cells. The investigators found that patients with artificial hearts regenerated muscle cells at more than six times the rate of healthy hearts.

“This is the strongest evidence we have, so far, that human heart muscle cells can actually regenerate, which really is exciting, because it solidifies the notion that there is an intrinsic capacity of the human heart to regenerate,” Sadek said.

“It also strongly supports the hypothesis that the inability of the heart muscle to ‘rest’ is a major driver of the heart’s lost ability to regenerate shortly after birth. It may be possible to target the molecular pathways involved in cell division to enhance the heart’s ability to regenerate.”

In 2011, Sadek published a paper in Science showing that while heart muscle cells actively divide in utero, they stop dividing shortly after birth to devote their energy to pumping blood through the body nonstop, with no time for breaks.

In 2014, he published evidence of cell division in patients with artificial hearts, hinting that their heart muscle cells might have been regenerating because they were able to rest.

These findings, combined with other research teams’ observations that some artificial heart patients could have their devices removed after experiencing a reversal of symptoms, led him to wonder if the artificial heart provides cardiac muscles the equivalent of bed rest like a person needs when recovering from injury.

“The pump pushes blood into the aorta, bypassing the heart,” he said. “The heart is essentially resting.”

Sadek’s previous studies indicated that this rest might be beneficial for the heart muscle cells, but he needed to design an experiment to determine whether patients with artificial hearts were actually regenerating muscles.

Next, Sadek wants to figure out why only about 25% of patients are “responders” to artificial hearts, meaning that their cardiac muscle regenerates.

“It’s not clear why some patients respond and some don’t, but it’s very clear that the ones who respond have the ability to regenerate heart muscle,” he said. “The exciting part now is to determine how we can make everyone a responder, because if you can, you can essentially cure heart failure.

“The beauty of this is that a mechanical heart is not a therapy we hope to deliver to our patients in the future—these devices are tried and true, and we’ve been using them for years.”"

-via Good News Network, December 31, 2024

[littleblood]

[yujateaandpi]

Girls don’t want boyfriends girls want to infodump about their niche special interests.

[ravensvalley]

#HotelSelfie

Alright…! The stay was really appreciated but it's now time to get out of here. Annnd, I hope everyone's still having a good week so far.

[satans-knitwear]

My eyes are up there ^^ keep going, at the top. 👀

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[mya-blazing]

School has gotten me really busy that I barely have time to make this edit. Antagonist edit time!

[nsstels]

Когда увидела Элисон:

My girl 😭💜

Когда увидела Мейсона:

OH MY GOD, ЧУВАК ТЫ- ТЫ ТАК ВЫРОС 😭😭😭

Радуюсь второстепенному персонажу больше чем главному, ну, а что, я реально не ожидала его увидеть. А то что он директор говорит о том, что одна моя задумка всё таки сбудется~

[revivalrequiem]

# medical themed ✮

forgot who requested this. free to use, credit if reposting and using for edits requests.

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If i were your therapist, i would give you heart-shaped meds.

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RESULTS ARE IN!

We think she WOULD listen to that!

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[gunsandspaceships]

Tony's surgeries in the cave: Part 2. First Surgery

All injuries caused by the explosion:

Shrapnel in the chest, mainly in the sternum area. Many barbs are too deep to be removed under these circumstances. Some of the shrapnel could have entered the heart through the blood vessels and damaged it, leading to sick sinus syndrome (arrhythmia).

Small wounds on the torso.

Long cut on the left collarbone.

Minor shrapnel wounds to the face and neck.

A trail of shrapnel wounds on the right forearm (with which he covered his face during the explosion).

Several barbs also hit the legs.

Blast injury (signs that we can see: lungs - wheezing; ears - bleeding; brain - confusion). The explosion itself could also damage the heart, causing arrhythmia.

Interesting fact - in the scene below, you can see that the explosion sent shrapnel through Tony. Barbs entered his chest and came out of his back. And you can see how big the wounds are.

Although while in the long run it's better for the shrapnel to go right through rather than get stuck in the body, in the short run he'd be very dead very soon.

For this reason and for the reason that there's no any sign of damage to his back after this scene, we should disregard this as a mistake made by visual effects specialists. But it's still a good idea for a fanfic.

What Yinsen did during the first surgery:

Stopped the bleeding.

Dealt with the consequences of the blast injury.

Performed sternotomy (cutting through the sternum and then reconnecting it). Removed the most dangerous shrapnel from Tony's chest.

Bolted an electromagnet to Tony's sternum and plugged it to a car battery to create a magnetic field that would attract the barbs and keep them away from Tony's heart.

Removed shrapnel from the rest of Tony's body.

Treated and stitched up the wounds.

What Yinsen did not do during the first surgery:

He did not remove Tony's sternum (sternectomy) because he didn't implant anything deep there.

He did not implant a pacemaker.

He did not implant the titanium socket for the reactor, because he didn't plan to implant it.