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Q&A: Mosquitos, Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil
As you may have heard, Brazil is facing a startling outbreak of microcephaly, a rare condition in which a child is born with a head and brain that are much smaller than normal. Microcephaly is almost...
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Cardiac RESTORE: Decreasing medication dependency in the cardiac intensive...
Children undergoing heart surgery need strong sedation and pain medications. Weaning them off these medications is complicated; many have withdrawal symptoms that require additional medications....
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3-D printed hearts of hope
Jason Ayres with son Patrick, Dr. Emani, and Patrick’s 3-D printed heart Jason Ayres, a family doctor in Alabama, was speechless as he held his adopted son Patrick’s heart in his hands. Well, a replica...
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Tissue models of heart disease provide testing ground for treatments
Scientists are now able to create cardiac heart muscle cells from patients with heart disease. But cells alone aren’t enough to fully study cardiac disorders — especially rhythm disorders that require...
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Making ‘simple’ heart surgery simpler, with minimally invasive techniques
Tertiary care centers such as the Boston Children’s Hospital Heart Center have led the way in groundbreaking surgical innovations for years, pushing boundaries and correcting ever more complex...
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An energy boost to the heart: Infant’s own mitochondria save her life
She’s small for a six-month-old, but otherwise Avery Gagnon looks perfectly healthy. She smiles, kicks, laughs and grabs her toys and pacifiers. What you’d never know is that Avery has complex...
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Red Zone at Home: Quality and safety beyond the hospital walls
In an age where mobile apps, big data and sophisticated technology seem to dominate every conversation about health care innovation, Jamie Harris’s quality improvement project might not seem so...
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Using newborns’ own umbilical cords as shunts for heart surgery
Cardiac surgery is reducing the use of plastic — starting with an operation for newborns who have life-threatening heart disease generally called single ventricle. Single ventricle is so dangerous...
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Intravenous oxygen delivery edges toward the clinic
Engineered microparticles that deliver oxygen straight to the bloodstream in emergency situations Sudden oxygen deprivation can happen for many reasons, from choking to aspiration to cardiac arrest. In...
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The future of cardiac MRI: 3-D cine
A 3-D motion-capture MRI of the heart The heart is a dynamic, beating organ, and until now it has been challenging to fully capture its complexity by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In an ideal...
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