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Peter Houghton (1938–2007) became the longest living person with an electrical heart pump in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His memoir of his career as a heart surgeon, Open Heart: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table , was published in 2017 by HarperCollins . [ 4 ]
Peter Houghton (20 August 1938 – 25 November 2007) was the longest surviving artificial heart transplant patient in the UK. [1] [2] Houghton was implanted with a Jarvik 2000 heart pump at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, by professor Stephen Westaby, on 20 June 2000 owing to severe heart failure. After the operation, the left ...
A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, to keep the arteries open in patients suffering from coronary heart disease. The vast majority of stents used in modern interventional cardiology are drug-eluting stents (DES). They are used in a medical procedure called percutaneous ...
Dr. Ethan C. Korngold is an interventional cardiologist whose team did a transcatheter aortic valve replacement for Peter Courtney on Jan. 8 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland.
When 6-year-old John-Henry learned he would be getting a new heart, he couldn't resist telling all of his friends at Cleveland Clinic Children's.. The Ohio hospital posted footage of the boy, who ...
Peter Wilmshurst is a British medical doctor and successful whistleblower who has been the subject of multiple cases of harassment through vexatious libel actions [1] brought by companies whose products he criticised as ineffective.
A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a small mesh tube that is placed in the arteries to keep them open in the treatment of vascular disease.The stent slowly releases a drug to block cell proliferation (a biological process of cell growth and division), thus preventing the arterial narrowing that can occur after stent implantation.
Boston Scientific is widely known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-eluting stent which is used to open clogged arteries. [3] With the full acquisition of Cameron Health in June 2012, the company also became notable for offering a minimally invasive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) which they call the EMBLEM ...