Boy Kept Alive on Artificial Heart
Undergoes Heart Transplant
Doctors
in Britain managed to keep a three year old boy alive on an artificial heart
for more than eight months before he was finally able to undergo a heart
transplant surgery.
Joe Skerratt was fitted with a Berlin heart for 251 days as his heart was unable to properly pump the blood around his body. Skerratt was diagnosed with a condition known as dilated cardiomyopathy and needed help from an artificial heart until a heart transplant surgery took place.
Dr Alessandro Giardini, who is a consultant pediatric cardiologist at Great Ormond Street where the surgery took place, said that Joe was very lucky to find a suitable heart for the transplant surgery.
“There is a chronic shortage of donor organs for children in the UK and at any one time we have several children in the hospital awaiting a transplant. Lots of children wait years for an organ to become available and can very sadly die while they are doing so”, he said.
Joe Skerratt was fitted with a Berlin heart for 251 days as his heart was unable to properly pump the blood around his body. Skerratt was diagnosed with a condition known as dilated cardiomyopathy and needed help from an artificial heart until a heart transplant surgery took place.
Dr Alessandro Giardini, who is a consultant pediatric cardiologist at Great Ormond Street where the surgery took place, said that Joe was very lucky to find a suitable heart for the transplant surgery.
“There is a chronic shortage of donor organs for children in the UK and at any one time we have several children in the hospital awaiting a transplant. Lots of children wait years for an organ to become available and can very sadly die while they are doing so”, he said.
Source-www.medindia.net
12.04.2012
Older mothers likely to
have twins: Research
Women
who wait until their 30s to get
pregnant are more likely to have twins, researchers say.
Compared
to three decades ago, the number of twin births has now almost doubled in US.
One in
30 babies born in the US is now a twin, compared to one in 53 in 1980,
according to a study by Michigan State University.
Scientists
say a key factor in the increase is the number of women having fertility
treatment because they have difficulty getting pregnant after the age of 30.
Doctors
say the findings could have important health implications and costs because
women having multiple births are more at risk.
“Prior
to 1980, the incidence of women having twins in the US was stable at about two
per cent of all births but it has risen dramatically in the past three
decades,” the Daily Express quoted Dr Barbara Luke, who led the study,
as saying.
She
told a conference in Italy that the number of twin births increased for women
of all ages but particularly for those aged over 30.
The
number of triplets also jumped from one in every 651 babies in 2009 to one in
2,702 in 1980.
Source: www.dnaindia.com
12.04.2012
All things are
difficult before they become easy
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