Saving Infants' Dying Hearts

Saving Infants' Dying Hearts

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Judge Kavanaugh, School Lunches, Reviving Hearts

Episode: Judge Kavanaugh, School Lunches, Reviving Hearts

  • Sep 4, 2018 7:00 pm
  • 19:43 mins

Guest: James McCully, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School What if, instead of doing a heart transplant, surgeons could coax a patient’s failing heart to repair and revive itself? Harvard heart researcher James McCully is part of a team that’s had success with this in pigs and in human babies. Tests on adult hearts are in the works.

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