#cardiology

"In Australia, a man was kept alive for 100 days on an artificial heart made of titanium while a donor heart was eventually found.

This is the longest-ever period that a man has been kept alive by an artificial heart, giving its developers encouragement that it can play a major role in supporting waiting list patients whose hearts are failing.

5 months ago, a man in his forties received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) after experiencing heart failure. The TAH has no pumps, valves, or other moving parts susceptible to wear. Instead, magnetic levitation permits a single rotor to pump blood to the body through both ventricles.

He was able to leave the hospital even, before a donor heart was found that was transplanted successfully.

In a statement, BiVACOR, St. Vincent’s Hospital where the surgery was carried out, and Monash University which provided the grant funding for the development of the TAH, said that the result is a sign the artificial heart could potentially offer a long-term option for people suffering from heart failure.

BiVACOR’s founder, Australian bioengineer Daniel Timms, who invented the device, said it was “exhilarating to see decades of work come to fruition.”

“The entire BiVACOR team is deeply grateful to the patient and his family for placing their trust in our Total Artificial Heart,” he said in the statement. “Their bravery will pave the way for countless more patients to receive this lifesaving technology.”

In the United States, there are around 3,500 donor hearts made available every year for more than 4,400 people who join the waiting list.

The TAH has already been tested in an early feasibility study in search of eventual FDA approval. 5 patients received the device, CNN reports, with the first being last July, when a 58-year-old man suffering end-stage heart failure received the implant during surgery at Texas Medical Center.

The four others also received it successfully, and organizers hope to expand it to 15 patients."

Heart attacks and strokes rarely occur without warning. According to health data from more than 9 million adults in South Korea and the US, nearly everyone who develops heart disease and suffers a major cardiovascular event has one of four major risk factors in the lead-up.

13.4.26

late night studying

I guess it’s time to make the ever-so-mandatory pinned post, as I stumble around in this medfet-consumed land we call Tumblr. Pleasure to make your acquaintance! I’m 31, cis female, bisexual. 🏳️‍🌈 I’m more or less a newbie with cardiophilia and kinks involving anything medical/gyno, as you can guess by all the memes I’ve posted/reblogged. I never intended to make a fetishblog, as I am a shy individual (hehe look at me shouting ”I’m touch-starved and horny” publicly, lol).

What does one enjoy? 🖤

- I like gentle doms, allthough I tend to take a more of a leading role with girls, so I guess I am a switch? Cardiophilia, gentle exams and checkups and stethoscopes makes a lovely use of ones time. Happy to be your compliant (and very much shy) patient, but just as happy to help you out as your safe and caring doctor. 🩺🩻

- No transphobia here, I treat you accordingly how you identify yourself.

- Slow burn, taking your time examining the mouth, throat, heart and lungs, while slowly getting a bit more handsy and reassuring with your patient 🙏 Consistent consent-checks (Are you still feeling okay getting your tummy examined? Is it okay if I check your pulse? Can I touch you here?).

- Cautiously into dental-exams as dentists give me anxiety.

- Open for DMs, not necessarily looking for roleplay, but always up for a conversation 🖤

- Other kinks outside cardiophilia/medical are light bdsm, motorcycles (or bikers 🙏) and masked doms.

Will anything get you blocked? 👀

- Yes. I am not a fan of unsolicited nudes, and as it is ILLEGAL, kindly skidaddle if you’re a minor. Also all anti-lgbt+, anti-waxxers, prolifers, MAGA, pro-ICE (you know who you are, f*ckers) are very much unwanted here.

- Other dislikes are topics involving incest, necrophilia, scat, watersports, non-consentual stuff.

“The beauty of this study is learning that women can get more out of each minute of moderate to vigorous activity than men do. It’s an incentivizing notion that we hope women will take to heart.”

“Intriguingly, though, mortality risk was reduced by 24% in women and 15% in men.”

The research team then studied moderate to vigorous aerobic physical activity, such as brisk walking or cycling, and found that men reached their maximal survival benefit from doing this level of exercise for about five hours per week, whereas women achieved the same degree of survival benefit from exercising just under about 2 1/2 hours per week.

Similarly, when it came to muscle-strengthening activity ... men reached their peak benefit from doing three sessions per week and women gained the same amount of benefit from about one session per week. (...)

“Men get a maximal survival benefit when performing 300 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per week, whereas women get the same benefit from 140 minutes per week,” Gulati said. “Nonetheless, women continue to get further benefit for up to 300 minutes a week."

First and third quote by Martha Gulati, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology in the Department of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, the Anita Dann Friedman Chair in Women's Cardiovascular Medicine and Research and co-lead author of the study.