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Implants help humans in many ways and are welcome to improve life conditions for people desiring reconstructions or corrections of their human tissue as well as information transmitting. Medical progress presents a growing number of medical devices to be implanted in human bodies. There are estimated more than 8.500 different implants known, to be incorporated in human bodies and this number is still growing.
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Implantable cooler to temporarily block nerve conduction and ease pain
Soft, bioresorbable coolers for reversible conduction block of peripheral nerves Reeder et al. developed a soft, miniaturized, implantable cooler to temporarily block nerve conduction using a liquid-to-gas phase transition as the cooling mechanism (see the Perspective by Jiang and Hong). They borrowed the design of electrical nerve cuff and substituted electrical wires with a microfluidic…
Younger patients experiencing more complications with cardioverter defibrillators
Younger patients who receive an implantable defibrillator are significantly less likely than older defibrillator patients to suffer from CHD and extracardiac comorbidities. They also have a better ejection fraction, 42% versus 32%. However, they are twice as likely (16.4% versus 8.2%) to come in for revision because of device-associated complications than older patients S Hakmi,…
Genetically Modified Porcine-to-Human Cardiac Xenotransplantation
A 57-year-old man with nonischemic cardiomyopathy who was dependent on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and was not a candidate for standard therapeutics, including a traditional allograft, received a heart from a genetically modified pig source animal that had 10 individual gene edits. Sudden diastolic thickening and failure of the xenograft occurred on day 49…