{"id":194400,"date":"2024-08-12T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/replacing-hearts-restoring-lives"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:29:54","slug":"replacing-hearts-restoring-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/replacing-hearts-restoring-lives","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Hearts. Restoring Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/replacing-hearts-restoring-lives2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new titanium heart has a mag lev inside to spin continuously and pump at the same rate as a normal heart.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Heart failure is a global epidemic affecting at least <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/28785469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">26 million people worldwide<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heart-disease\/about\/heart-failure.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heartdisease\/heart_failure.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6.2 million adults in the U.S.<\/a>, and is increasing in prevalence. Heart transplantations are reserved for those with severe heart failure and are limited to fewer than 6,000 procedures per year globally.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the U.S. National Institutes of Health estimated that up to <a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/project-details\/9410265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100,000 patients<\/a> could immediately benefit from mechanical circulatory support (MCS), and the European market is similarly sized. Without intervention, patients with severe HF have a bleak outlook. For these patients, drug therapy is a limited, relatively ineffective option. Although a heart transplant would meet their needs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6816340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only 6,000 donor hearts are available globally each year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Implantation of a Total Artificial Heart (TAH) is a treatment option for patients with end-stage biventricular HF who need support while on a heart transplant waiting list. Removal of the native ventricles allows the device to completely replace the function of the native heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new titanium heart has a mag lev inside to spin continuously and pump at the same rate as a normal heart. Heart failure is a global epidemic affecting at least 26 million people worldwide, 6.2 million adults in the U.S., and is increasing in prevalence. Heart transplantations are reserved for those with severe heart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}