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.
@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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@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.
@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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Weird that you posted about this today. I just read that the guy died.
@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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The transplant patient died.
do the dark humor jokes go here or in the designated thread?I'm sorry to hear that.
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The transplant raised ethical concerns among animal rights activists, who believe animals should not be sacrificed for human benefit, and among some who objected to Bennett, who had served time in prison for attacking a man with a knife, receiving a life-extending procedure.
Well, there’s two groups of people who can go fuck themselves.
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The transplant raised ethical concerns among animal rights activists, who believe animals should not be sacrificed for human benefit, and among some who objected to Bennett, who had served time in prison for attacking a man with a knife, receiving a life-extending procedure.
Well, there’s two groups of people who can go fuck themselves.
@jon-nyc said in Heart Transplant:
The transplant raised ethical concerns among animal rights activists, who believe animals should not be sacrificed for human benefit, and among some who objected to Bennett, who had served time in prison for attacking a man with a knife, receiving a life-extending procedure.
Well, there’s two groups of people who can go fuck themselves.
Couldn't agree more.
