Pig Heart Transplant
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Yeah, even regular transplants that happen after a month of ECMO have long recovery times.
By contrast I was out of ICU in 2 days, out of hospital in 14. Did a 5k (walk mostly) at 3months.
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By the way, a history of non-compliance is enough to get you rejected by many programs.
But the guy’s trouble finding a program that would accept him probably was part of his decision to accept the animal heart in the first place.
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Another thing, that Dr’s interview is one big HIPPA violation
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@jon-nyc said in Heart Transplant:
Yeah, even regular transplants that happen after a month of ECMO have long recovery times.
By contrast I was out of ICU in 2 days, out of hospital in 14. Did a 5k (walk mostly) at 3months.
That's wicked good.
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@jolly said in Heart Transplant:
@jon-nyc said in Heart Transplant:
Yeah, even regular transplants that happen after a month of ECMO have long recovery times.
By contrast I was out of ICU in 2 days, out of hospital in 14. Did a 5k (walk mostly) at 3months.
That's wicked good.
Thanks. The 5k in particular, even though I walked much of it I still finished in 39m. Other guys get out of the hospital in 2 weeks or so. But I don’t know any who were as recovered at 3mo.
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Long and fascinating article about this transplant, and also a long look at the history of organ transplantation.
The article mentions the team at Duke, perhaps @jon-nyc knows some of these people.
By the way, the heart surgeons I used to work with (we didn't do transplants at our place - no infrastructure support), all said that the surgery is technically pretty simple. You're sewing big things to big things, after all - not like coronary bypass.
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Weird that you posted about this today. I just read that the guy died.
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@taiwan_girl said in Heart Transplant:
Weird that you posted about this today. I just read that the guy died.
Yep, I saw that too.
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The transplant patient died.
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do the dark humor jokes go here or in the designated thread?I'm sorry to hear that.
It was brave that he decided to be a guinea pig. -