Tuesday, April 11, 2017

From heart failure to heart health.

The ultimate treatment of heart failure is a heart transplant. In most heart failure the heart muscle becomes too weak to pump the blood and the patient dies from kidney failure. Since transplantable hearts are not always available, a procedure was developed where a device is implanted to assist the Left Ventricle to pump the blood.

SURPRISE! Some of the patients recovered so they no longer needed the transplant.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-heart-failure-health-shown.html

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