MedTech Week Magazine 2019 At a glance

Highlights from the 5th Edition of the Award-Winning MedTech Week Magazine

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Perspectives The best breast cancer treatment for you
Diagnostics, Patient

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.

Perspectives Getting back in the game
Orthopheadic, Patient

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.

Perspectives How to keep smiling when you live with Atrial Fibrillation
Cardiology, Patient

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.

Perspectives Its not just a pacemaker but a smile maker and a dream maker
Cardiology, Patient

‘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.

Perspectives The comfort of recovering at home
Homecare, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Patient

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.

Perspectives Riding the tide of kidney disease
Homecare, Patient

'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.

Perspectives A remarkable recovery from a severe stroke
Cardiology, Innovation, Patient

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.

Perspectives TAVI transformed my life
Cardiology, Patient

‘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.

‘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.

Marianella

Patient Advocate

I woke up the next day in the hospital. I didn’t know why I was there, but I was wearing a housecoat and had needles in my arms and there was uncomfortable equipment attached to my neck. This, I soon learned, was an external pacemaker and it was keeping me alive, but it was clear that I needed to be fitted with an internal one.

Doctors said I had suffered a bradycardia – a dangerously low heart rate, which resulted in a lack of oxygen to my brain causing a blood clot. I was fitted immediately with a pacemaker.

To be honest, I had thought that the devices were strictly for old people and, at first, hated the idea of needing one. I was telling myself: ‘How can a young athlete have a pacemaker? This is not okay!’

Now though, I embrace the wonderful piece of technology that is protecting my life every day. It has completely taken care of the bradycardia. I don’t even think about it anymore. It was also a relief to learn that the pacemaker my clinician chose would allow me to undergo MRI scans if I ever need one later in life.

I feel very lucky to have survived the blood clot unscathed. Perhaps even more importantly, I am back running marathons again. In November, 2015, I completed the New York City Marathon – keeping pace with the race for 26 miles without missing a beat.

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