Study finds common complication of pacemakers four times higher than previously thought
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| May 23, 2023 | Jacqueline Mitchell / Enrico G. Ferro et al
About 3 million Americans live with cardiovascular pacemakers. But
over time, scar tissue or blood clots can form around the leads, or wires, that carry the electrical impulses from the pacemaker to the heart. Scar tissue or clots may hinder the flow of blood, potentially resulting in swollen extremities or pain. However, the incidence and clinical impact of such lead-related venous obstruction, or LRVO, among patients with pacemaker devices is not well characterized. Physician-researchers found that the incidence of symptomatic LRVO among patients implanted with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices to be four times higher than previously reported—with only a minority...
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Researchers reprogram fat-derived stem cells to act as biologic pacemakers
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Cardiovascular Business ^
| 12.19.19 | Anicka Slachta
Researchers at the University of Houston are pioneering a unique method for developing biological pacemakers: converting stem cells found in fat to biologic pacemaker cells.Pharmacologist and UH associate professor Bradley McConnell, BS, PhD, is leading the effort and published his team’s latest results in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.
The results build on colleague and co-author Robert J. Schwartz’s 2012 finding that adipogenic mesenchymal stem cells in fat tissue could be reprogrammed into cardiac progenitor cells.Those same progenitor cells are now being programmed by McConnell et al. to act as biologic pacemaker cells—cells responsible for keeping hearts...
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Gerry & the Pacemakers - Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
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| 9/2/2016 | Gerry & the Pacemakers
Gerry & the Pacemakers - Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
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Gerry & the Pacemakers - "Ferry Cross The Mersey" (1965)
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| 8/26/2016 | Staff
Hope you enjoy. Ferry Cross The Mersey
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Gerry and the Pacemakers – “Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying” (1964, video)
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| 6/21/2016 | Staff
Hope you enjoy. ”Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying”
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