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Doctors at Mayo Clinic are studying acupuncture to see how it helps people who've been stuck in the hospital for weeks on end. People like the young woman you're about to meet who had not one, but two heart transplants.
Resource: Heart Transplant Program
Imagine how hard it would be to watch a loved one die waiting for a heart transplant because no donor organs were available. Unfortunately this happens to thousands every year. The good news is that technology for keeping people alive longer as they wait is getting much better.
Resource: Heart Transplant
Babies born with certain severe congenital heart problems have the opportunity to receive a heart transplant within weeks of birth at Mayo Clinic. Heart transplantation is offered only when corrective surgery is too risky or not an option. This story focuses on a two-year-old girl who had a transplant shortly after birth because her heart was not formed properly. She is doing very well, and without that transplant, she would have died. This story also stresses the importance of organ donation.
Every year, thousands of people have open heart bypass surgery to reroute blocked arteries. Now a group of doctors are performing bypasses without silencing your beating heart.
Resource: Treatment with Bypass Surgery
Right now there are close to 5-million people in America suffering from heart failure. Many of these people would benefit from a heart transplant, but because most of them are over age 65, they're often not eligible for that life-saving operation. But now, doctors at Mayo Clinic are studying a device that is not only keeping people with heart failure alive longer, but it's also giving them a better quality of life.
Resource: Heart Transplant
Mayo Clinic uses ventricular-assist device to help patients who need heart transplants stay alive as they wait for their new heart.
Research shows that in order to maintain a healthy heart and weight, most of us need to move more. And one of the easiest ways for many to do that is by getting up and walking. Or running if you can.
Resource: Fitness Program
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