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    Nanotechnology and blood clots

    Som advances from the filed of nanotechnology 1.) By loading magnetic nanoparticles with drugs and dressing them in biochemical camouflage, researchers say they can destroy blood clots 100 to 1,000 times faster than a commonly used clot-busting technique...
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    Wheat bran to make nano-anticoagulants

    Who know, perhaps one day this could turn to something good Using waste wheat bran, researchers have synthesized silver nanoparticles that can scavenge free radicals and prevent blood clots from forming1. These nanoparticles are anticipated to be useful for combating various diseases such as...
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    FDA Approved in 2014 - CardioCel® : tissue regeneration of heart valves

    It's time to upadte this thread on uses of CardioCel in aortic valve repair: Admedus Limited (ASX:AHZ) has started a clinical study into aortic tri-leaflet heart valve reconstructions using its cardiovascular bio-scaffold CardioCel following a successful pre-clinical study. The study will...
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    Living heart valves grown in laboratories

    Dear friends, it has been quite "a while" since I last logged in. I hope everyone is doing fine. I justread this article yesterday and I thought I'd share it with you: Cells could be taken from babies born with severe heart defects and used to grow living replacement valves in a laboratory, if...
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    Keep njean in your prayers

    What a great act from her husband, I'm sure it was the way Norma would choose it.
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    Keep njean in your prayers

    I don't come to the site often and this news comes as a shock to me. I knew she was not doing well, but somehow asumed they will be able to help her. Rest in peace, sweet Norma. Condolances to her family.
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    10 Years - AVR MVR St Jude Mechanical Valves

    Hi Cork, I tried to answer to your PM, but it would not allow me to send the answer (an error message occured). If you want, you can also write me to: [email protected] And I'm really glad, that you are going strong! :-)
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    Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement under Local Anaesthetic

    Another exciting news, thanks for sharing! Many new things are being tried out, sure looks promissing for everyone in the waiting room.
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    New mechanical valve in evolution

    Now that is a great news! You just made my day :Wink:
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    First percutaneous repair of tricuspid valve

    It seems, that precutaneous replacements and repairs are really kicking off. Here is a report on first percutaneous repair of tricuspid valve: Mitralign has reported on the successful use of its technology to perform a percutaneous repair on a patient with tricuspid regurgitation. The German...
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    Surface coating for medical devices prevents blood clotting and bacterial infections

    Chaconne - I also thought of that, but did not research it further. Perhaps I'll take some time for research, but I'm on business trip so my days are full. Hopefully next week I will have some more time.
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    Surface coating for medical devices prevents blood clotting and bacterial infections

    Our bodies have evolved to be pretty good at dealing with incursions by foreign objects and bacteria. Usually, that's a positive thing, but it can spell trouble for medical devices, such as replacement joints, cardiac implants and dialysis machines, which increase the risk of blood clots and...
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    Contact Sports

    I do not have any similar experience - to start with I did not have the surgery (yet) and I do not play contact sports. I do hope that someone more knowledgeable comes forward but what I was thinking is: could you take on a role that would allow you to stay involved but not play? Like being a...
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    Tumeric as an anticoagulant

    I believe that garlic has also anticoagulant properies - just don't know in what quantities. When started googling, I found the sampe reports (so anticoagulant properties( being listed for several other herbs. Here are some links that you might find interesting...
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    How did you deal with anxiety and depression?

    I can only repeat what you said, dornole. Thank you, and everyone else, who shared their experience in this thread, much appreciated!
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    How did you deal with anxiety and depression?

    Hi, I will one day need the surgery. My depression comes from the shock (to get this news) and grief/anger (I was not born with valve malfunction, but I had so called rheumatic fever, that is an autoimmune inflammation that can follow untreated strep infection - thus if my strep or rheumatic...
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    How did you deal with anxiety and depression?

    Hi Tom, I'm sorry to hear what you have been through, I hope that you feel better now. Of course I agree - doctors are human, they make mistakes. But in my family we never came across any mis-diagnosis and I simply considered doctors to be perfect, even though deep down I knew nobody is. I was...
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    How did you deal with anxiety and depression?

    True, I always have been a very thorough researcher. When I was preparing my master thesis my mentor was literally begging me to stop searching for references :-) My mentor was a distinguished professor, who thought courses both in Slovenia and US and was very satisfied with my thesis, but I...
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    How did you deal with anxiety and depression?

    Hi Chris, thank you for your kind words. You gave really nice example. I just hope that it doesn't continue pouring into my pond! I would need some calm time, so here's to hoping no major shocks happen to me in the near future. I do hope that this experience will not "destroy me" but be a...
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    How did you deal with anxiety and depression?

    I completely agree, that behavioral techniques are a must for me. I always avoided taking meds if not necessary/needed, but now I need them to be able to help myself (as dornole nicely put it).
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