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Researchers discover new opportunities for preventing kidney injury following cardiac surgery.
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A patient with severe aortic stenosis receives a specialized surgery to save his life at Michigan Medicine.
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Michigan Medicine research finds that some patients with PE, a blood clot in one or more pulmonary arteries, may be hospitalized unnecessarily due to computed tomography, or CT, imaging results rather than clinical risk factors.
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For a rare heart condition, finding and getting to the right team of specialists at Michigan Medicine saved her life, and her chance to have kids.
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A 34-year-old mom of two was able to recover after receiving life-saving stroke care, including treatment for a hole in her heart, at Sparrow Health System, part of U-M Health.
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As the number of heart transplants performed across the United States continues to grow, surgeons at the U-M Health are taking advantage of technology that could increase its transplant yield by as much as 30%. Transplant surgeons in Ann Arbor completed the health system’s first heart transplant using an organ from a donor who had recently died — a process called donation after circulatory death, or DCD.
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New research from U-M shows that adolescents, young adults with advanced heart disease want to take an active role in making medical care decisions alongside their doctors and caregivers. The study sheds light on the importance of including young patients in medical decision-making and the benefits it has on their psychological well-being.
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Unique collaboration at Michigan Medicine helps 1-year-old with serious heart condition see a specialist right away and receive immediate treatment.
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Surgeons in Zambia completed the country’s first total aortic arch replacement – guided by a team from University of Michigan Health. The six-person surgical team traveled from Ann Arbor to Africa in late February to co-lead this case and several others at National Heart Hospital, a government-established, 120-bed facility in Lusaka, Zambia.
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Cardiologist-approved heart tips for a healthier life from Michigan Medicine.
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For chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, also known as CTEPH, balloon pulmonary angioplasty is a novel, nonsurgical treatment which has seen a significant reduction in complications in recent years.
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We have expanded the Michigan Medicine News Break to include Twitter Space conversations with Michigan Medicine experts. Today's episode is a conversation about COVID and overall lung health shared by three experts from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. COVID-19 has affected all of us in some way, and unfortunately doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Dr. MeiLan Han, Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of Michigan Health, Dr. Hallie Prescott and Dr. Thomas Valley, also of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, dive into what the pandemic has taught us about lung health in general, lung health implications of long COVID and how we can apply lessons learned to better support overall lung health in the future.
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Amy Bacon was inspired to go to college after her heart transplant. She now has three academic degrees and is working on a fourth while also educating teenagers about the importance of organ transplants.
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For an abdominal aortic aneurysm, female patients have a higher risk for kidney damage after endovascular repair, a Michigan Medicine study finds.
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Vitamin D has been touted as a supplement that can prevent or treat all kinds of medical conditions. But further research has revealed that Vitamin D isn’t quite the cure-all it was thought to be