The engineer who fixed his own heart
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The engineer who fixed his own heart
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Re: The engineer who fixed his own heart
#2Tal provided one of my favourite Ted talks on this subject:
http://www.ted.com/talks/tal_golesworthy_how_i_repaired_my_o...
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#3I wish they went more into detail about the devise itself. I was hoping to see a picture.
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#5am i the only one who was expecting a Tony Stark photo ?
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#7Aorta wrapping was actually pioneered in the 1950's, before the graft replacements that the article mentions, but generally the wrapping had a poor result and was abandonded as a technique. (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802172/pdf/anns...)
Generally the trend in vascular surgery these days is to less invasive procedures such as a stent graft.
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#8Great title.
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#9Marfan syndrome makes you tall and lanky, so they actually have to watch for it carefully in highschool basketball teams. The build it gives them makes them a natural at the sport, but the stress of the game combined with the heart weakness caused by Marfan Syndrome can be lethal.
I suspect a lot of kids who lost their basketball dreams in a heart-attack will be lining up for this procedure.
Re: The engineer who fixed his own heart
#10Tal provided one of my favourite Ted talks on this subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/tal_golesworthy_how_i_repaired_my_o...
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