Cell savers: new surgery methods recycle your own blood

Article Abstract:

A team of surgeons have developed a program that allows patients to undergo open-heart surgery without a blood transfusion. Drugs are used to increase red-blood cell production. A 'cell-saver' machine collects and cleans the blood, which lasts longer when returned to the patient.

Innovations, Blood collection and preservation, Surgery, Preoperative care, Heart, Heart surgery

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Changing destiny: blood test helps families outsmart a killer

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The identification of the gene for familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) has made it possible to use a simple blood test to identify people who will surely develop the disease if their thyroid gland is not removed.

Prevention, Thyroid cancer

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Helping hearts beat faster: quicker heart-attack test may save minutes and lives

Article Abstract:

Researchers are developing a faster heart attack test that measures the ratio of fresh and degraded creatine kinase MB in the blood. The heart attack test yields results within 75 minutes.

Diagnosis, Measurement, Heart attack, Creatine kinase

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