Cardiovascular - August 2016 Archives

Fifteen years ago, Elmo Aquino, a resident of Orange Park, Florida, was an avid runner. He'd competed in Jacksonville's Gate River Run, an annual 15-kilometer running event, several times. But one morning in the summer of 2001, his active lifestyle came to an abrupt end when suddenly, while on a treadmill, he found he couldn't run. "I knew something was wrong, because I was used to running," recalls Elmo, now age 43. He knew he needed medical treatment. "I could have gone to some of the other hospitals," he says. "But with Mayo Clinic here in town, it was a no-brainer for me." Elmo was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy — a condition in which the chambers of the heart become enlarged — and he ended up in the intensive care unit. That's where he first met Daniel Yip, M.D., medical director for the Heart Failure and Transplant Program at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. 

Michael Tyler and William Tiger didn't know one another before the summer of 2016. But they now share a unique life event. Both 55-year-olds underwent heart transplant surgery at Mayo Clinic's Arizona campus on the same day, at the same time. Completing the simultaneous procedures was a milestone for the Transplant Center team in Arizona, who had not previously been called on to perform more than one heart transplant at a time. "It was truly remarkable how the team came together," says transplant coordinator Allison Smith, who said the offers for both hearts came in on a Friday afternoon. Extensive coordination and precise timing were crucial to providing the best possible outcomes for the patients. "When we all came in on Monday morning and knew the patients were doing well, it was like a euphoric high," she says. 

Arthur Poll was visiting family in Tucson, Ariz., when he felt a sharp pain in his left kidney one evening. The next day he saw ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’ve heard that some foods that are labeled as “trans fat-free” actually may contain harmful trans fats. Is this true? ...

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ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has launched a new type of blood test that will be used to predict adverse cardiovascular events in patients with ...

175,000 deaths are reported each year around the world, due to aortic aneurysms. When the largest blood vessel in the body, the aorta, dilates like ...

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The core group of Mayo Clinic researchers that moved their lab to the base camp at Mount Everest to study heart disease and aging are ...