It continues to amaze me that I have this thing in my chest. It's a stent keeping my aorta nice and open; I have congenital heart defects, and the stent is helping out with that. (X-ray from Monday: it's been a week...).

#xray #medical #stent #achd #heartDefects

I remember a young couple, their faces a canvas of worry and that fierce, protective love only new parents truly know. Their little one, just a few weeks old, wasn't quite thriving. #AlagilleSyndrome #Bileducts #cholestasis #geneticdisorder #heartdefects #JAG1gene #liverdamage

https://priya.health/alagille-syndrome/

One of #grants #Trump froze at #Cornell: $6.7M (over 4 yrs) to develop #HeartPumps for #babies born w/ #HeartDefects.

It took decades of work to get to the point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

#science #research #medicine #health #pediatrics #cardiology #infants #PediatricCardiology #innovation #progress #Universities #law #USpol #Musk #DOGE #AntiIntellectualism #AntiScience #HealthyIfYoureWealthy
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/05/research-risk-life-saving-heart-pumps-babies

HOW COOL IS THIS? 🤩

Women in #Bolivia are #KNITTING tiny #occluders ('top hats' to block a hole in the #heart) of ELASTIC METAL, which are then folded up in a catheter, inserted into the body, travel ON THEIR OWN to the heart, then 'pop open' to their proper shape, b/c they 'remember' what shape they are supposed to be.

Old craft meets future #scifi

*faints from coolness of it all*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32076070

#Cardiology #PDA #HeartDefects #Indigenous #PatentDuctusArteriosus
#Aymara #LaPaz