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Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by udomoh(m): 4:50pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
Have you seen seen the man living without a heart? Is is possible to live without a heart? Well read the news article below. A gentleman named Craig Lewis, a 55-year-old experiencing a life threatening heart disease, named “amyloidosis”, was admitted to the Texas Heart Institute. Amyloidosis (am-uh-loi-DO-sis) is a rare disease that occurs when a substance called amyloid builds up in your organs. Amyloid is an abnormal protein that is produced in your bone marrow and can be deposited in any tissue or organ. Luckily, Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier from the Institute came up with what they call a “continuous flow” device which would let blood to circulate through his body without a pulse. They detached Mr Lewis’ heart and then connected the device -the patient was up, well and speaking with doctors in the same day. The device is formed by intricately tying together two ventricular assist devices, replacing the entire heart, It whirls instead of pulses, spinning blood through the body in a continuous flow. Dr. Cohn is a expert surgeon, as well as an discoverer and scientist who has consumed a large part of his life developing technologies to substitute or repair the human heart. The most distinguished device being what is called the Left Ventricular Assist Device, also termed as LVADs. Cohn teamed up with Dr. Bud Frazier to make a new discovery that uses the technology from LVADs to duplicate the functions of the heart’s right and left ventricles. They (inappropriately) tried their device on 70 calves, all of whom gave a flat line on an EKG, no heart rate or pulse, yet they were flawlessly normal, ate normally and related with each other normally but again, had no heartbeat. The heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood around the body. Common diseases that affect the heart are myocardial infarction, endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart diseases, atherosclerosis, myomas, cancers, hemochromatosis, coronary artery diseases and so on. https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/06/17/craig-lewis-first-man-to-live-without-a-heart/?amp/ 10 Likes 6 Shares
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Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by dawnomike(m): 4:57pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
Really nice stuff... 19 Likes |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by Jmk9292(m): 5:00pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
Impressive.... Beauty of science.. 26 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by MistadeRegal(m): 5:05pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
But will never be like the original. 59 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by czarina(f): 5:14pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
It is well. So much suffering, his countenance shows every bit of it. 33 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by czarina(f): 5:14pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
MistadeRegal:I'm sure he gave up on that already. He only wants to live 123 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by udomoh(m): 5:28pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
The best thing that has ever happened to mankind is Science. 78 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by tolugar: 6:16pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
Heartless man indeed 51 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by MistadeRegal(m): 10:14pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
czarina: Peradventure. 2 Likes |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by SILVERLINES: 6:57am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Texas Heart Institute Nigeria medical schools don't have cardiology department 8 Likes |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by femtex007(m): 8:37am On Jun 18, 2019 |
I like people innovating thing on a daily basis. 7 Likes |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by chiipink(f): 8:37am On Jun 18, 2019 |
I'm back |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by 1zynnvn(m): 8:38am On Jun 18, 2019 |
my ex is living without a heart also 49 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by aldexrio(m): 8:38am On Jun 18, 2019 |
He is very heartless 11 Likes |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by KanuSE: 8:38am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Mankind ! |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by hisexcellency34: 8:39am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Living dead |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by ShitHead(m): 8:39am On Jun 18, 2019 |
So, he is heartless? 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by masterP042(m): 8:39am On Jun 18, 2019 |
All thanks to the doctors, man correcting god's mistakes since 200bc 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by Danelo(m): 8:40am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Science no be jazz ..... It's truly amazing |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by stano2(m): 8:40am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Science way forward |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by sheller(m): 8:40am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Wow! Like seriously? at least he has no heart to be broken by nowadays woman 6 Likes |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by TalkTalkTwins(m): 8:41am On Jun 18, 2019 |
OP he's not the only one, all Nigerian politicians are 'heartless' 16 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by INTEGRITYA1(m): 8:42am On Jun 18, 2019 |
That's serious. |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by luminouz(m): 8:43am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Heartless Man!!! 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Craig Lewis: First Man To Live Without A Heart by cooldipo(m): 8:44am On Jun 18, 2019 |
Miniaturization pls |
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