Heart transplantation

They needed close ventillatory and cardiovascular monitoring and support. Medical complications as chest infections, ischemic heart attacks and uncontrolled diabetes were recorded. Seven wound infections were encountered that were successfully treated in six cases by sensitive antibiotics after obtaining culture and sensitivity and repeated daily dressings while in one patient…

Imagine waking up one morning with severe pain in your chest, resulting in an ER visit because the pain is unbearable. The results from your doctor explains that you have a heart condition that requires you to get a heart transplant in the next three months, or heart failure will occur. Two and half months have passed, you are laying there, IV in hand, and the hum of machines around you, as you watch your health slowly slip away in front of your eyes, as that dreaded three month mark approaches.…

On 02/08/17 I was on 4SICU, the cardiothoracic intensive care unit, and my patient was D.B., a 60-year-old male. D.B. was on 4SICU because he had a heart transplant on 1/24/17. However, prior to and after his heart transplant, he had various multi-system physical disruptions. D.B. had ischemic cardiomyopathy with an ejection fraction of 25%. The normal ejection fraction lies somewhere between 55-75%. In 2010, the patient had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placed. In 2014, a…

weakness that begins in the legs and pelvic region in early stages (“Diseases and Conditions”, 2014). Eventually, the disease will spread to upward extremities, such as the arms, head, and chest, which then leads to breathing problems and possible heart failure (“Diseases and Conditions”, 2014). In order to treat these physiological effects, physical therapies are mainly used to help patients remain mobile as long as possible and to reduce any skeletal and joint deformities that form from the…

cessation of either brain or circulatory activity. The dead donor rule not part of any legislation moreover it is a governing ethical guideline which states that a donor must be pronounced death prior to the removal of life -sustaining organs such as the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys (Veatch and Ross, 2015). Ethical concerns pertaining death surround the definition of death and the irreversibility of the process of dying. The diagnostic measures that are mandatory for pronouncing a patient…

Organ donation has been around for many years and will continue until the end of time. It is an ongoing issue where the demand is much higher than the supply available. Many are against being a registered organ donor because of things such a religious issues. That is very understandable, but when thinking about how many lives would be saved by donating organs that are useless after passing away, it seems silly not to give to those in need. Mothers, fathers, children, and friends are all on the…

diseases, injury or birth defects. Even though transplant is one of the advances of medicine the need is greater than the donation. There is usually a long wait time before a transplantation occurs.For example, a kidney can be donated because the human body only needs one kidney to function properly. In other cases, organs like the heart or lungs are taken from someone who recently passed(Al Jazeera America). The liver, kidney, pancreas,…

of the project is to produce the immunosuppressant drug, Cyclosporine from Tolypocladium Inflatum. Patients who undergo solid organ transplantation require an immunosuppressive drug to prevent rejection by decreasing the body's own natural defense to foreign tissues, and Cyclosporin A is one of the most commonly used immunosuppressive drugs in the organ transplantations. Cyclosporin A is a cyclic nonribosomal peptide, consisting of 11 amino acids and synthesized through an enzyme called…

Extended Response-Organ Transplants Part A Heart transplants are only available to those who have end stage heart disease and have tried all other options. It can also only be obtained by someone who has an expected life of at least 5 years post-transplant and who can potentially return to an active life. Anyone who suffers from cardiogenic shock, intractable symptomatic heart failure which cannot be treated, requires permanent mechanical cardiac support, has frequent discharges from an AICD or…

approximately 30,000 cardiac cells have died. The heart cannot reproduce these lost cells, and there are cardiac cells still dying. What is the doctor to do to help solve this problem? This issue is the area in which the ideology and use of stem cells come into play. Stem cells are, “Multipotent, undifferentiated cells capable of multiplication and differentiation (Paolo and Markwald).” Thus, these stem cells can be utilized in a patient to allow for the heart to reproduce new cells and keep…