MedTech Week Magazine 2019 At a glance
Highlights from the 5th Edition of the Award-Winning MedTech Week Magazine
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The best breast cancer treatment for you
No two women are the same, and neither are their breast cancers. Cutting-edge genomic tests can be valuable tools for determining the best treatment for you.
Getting back in the game
Osteoarthritis led to an imbalance and damaged cartilage, but my total hip replacement surgery enabled me to continue my career.
How to keep smiling when you live with Atrial Fibrillation
As someone in their 70s with Atrial Fibrillation (AF), I couldn’t think of anything but my disease – until I was advised to have a minimally-invasive new procedure.
‘It’s not just a pacemaker, but a smile-maker and a dream-maker’
I am 38-year-old editor and a keen athlete from Costa Rica. In January 2015, I woke up with a terrible headache, but managed to go to work. Around midday my headache retuned with such force that it knocked me out.
The comfort of recovering at home
I developed life-threatening blood poisoning, requiring intravenous (IV) antibiotic treatment. After being hooked up to a drip in hospital for three weeks, I had had enough.
'Riding the tide of kidney disease'
I had been managing kidney disease for my entire adult life – but that hasn’t stopped me pursuing my passion for caravanning and kite surfing.
A remarkable recovery from a severe stroke
At the age of 33, I was paralysed on my left-hand-side and struggling to speak, following a stroke in the early hours of the morning. After a minimally-invasive procedure, the clot was removed and I walked out of hospital within 24 hours without symptoms.
‘TAVI transformed my life’
I thought my breathlessness and fatigue were part of the ageing process, but the symptoms were due to a serious heart condition.
A remarkable recovery from a severe stroke
At the age of 33, I was paralysed on my left-hand-side and struggling to speak, following a stroke in the early hours of the morning. After a minimally-invasive procedure, the clot was removed and I walked out of hospital within 24 hours without symptoms.
Stuart White
Patient Advocate
I was completely unaware that I’d had a stroke. It was around 5 o’clock in the morning when I crashed my car, shortly after setting off for work. A passer-by called an ambulance and I was taken to a nearby hospital.
My face had fallen on the left side. I couldn’t move my arms or legs and my speech was slurred.
After failing to respond to clot-busting drugs, I was transferred to a hospital an hour’s drive away, where doctors were able to perform a mechanical thrombectomy, to remove the blood clot.
The stroke had caused a blockage to the main vessels of my brain. We all know that for every minute you delay there are millions of brain cells which are at risk.
The doctor decided to perform a mechanical thrombectomy beginning by inserting a tube into the groin, which goes all the way up to the main blood vessels in the neck and into the brain. Through the tube a stent is placed into the clot in the brain and then the clot is extracted by pulling this device out. The procedure lasted just twelve minutes. They got the clot out and open up all the vessels in the brain.
I was home the following day. As soon as I had the operation, it was just normal again. Everything worked. It was just incredible.
