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Tomorrow’s Cure: Physicians are using AI to help transform organ transplant
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How is artificial intelligence used to improve all parts of the organ transplant process? On the latest episode of Tomorrow's Cure, learn about the efforts to use AI to help physicians detect organ failure earlier. AI is also powerful in helping detect the potential impacts of early interventions to delay or prevent organ failure and the need for organ replacement therapies.
This week's podcast episode features Dr. Rohan Goswami, Transplant Cardiologist and Director of Heart Transplant Research and Innovation at Mayo Clinic, and Javier Echenique, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at GPx, a healthcare technology company.
GPx developed a bloodless blood test, a wearable device that utilizes AI to monitor patients with heart failure. The innovation allows physicians to monitor patients proactively to prevent their conditions from worsening.
"Sometimes, you rely on patients to tell you they don’t feel great before you decide to intervene. Often, by that point, things have gone really far," explains Echenique. "There's very little that Dr. Goswami can do to really turn around that condition. But, if you can catch it earlier, he can help that patient better. The blood test tends to show this change in the patient often before the patient starts feeling symptoms themselves."
Advancements in technology could help patients prevent a decline in their heart health, as well as reduce hospitalizations.
“I think the biggest role for AI, where I see it really helping transplant patients is to actually avoid transplant altogether,” said Dr. Goswami. “One of the things that we're working on is predicting who has heart failure and who's going to recover with certain therapies that we apply. And, earlier prediction and understanding of, their environmental factors, their disease state, what medications they're on, what their antiprobiology trend looks like, really may give us a better idea.”
To learn more, check out the new episode of Tomorrow's Cure wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about Tomorrow's Cure and see a complete list of episodes and featured experts, visit tomorrowscure.com.
