A close family friend, w/m, age 38, good health history, is in hospital
in Chattanooga, Tn. Attending card. diagnosed Myocarditis, transplant is
only chance. Blood clot has developed in heart, drugs are being used to
try to dissolve it. Patient is not stable enough to be moved, and no
local hospital does transplants.
Myocarditis is relatively unknown to local physicans. Is transplant the
only option?
Any information/suggestions you can e-mail me will be greatly
appreciated, but time is of the essence. Also, information on hospitals
with a history of treating Myocarditis with positive results would also
be appreciated.
Joe Kirkpatrick
trist…@chatt.mindspring.com
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Joe Kirkpatrick <trist…@chatt.mindspring.com> wrote:
>A close family friend, w/m, age 38, good health history, is in hospital
>in Chattanooga, Tn. Attending card. diagnosed Myocarditis, transplant is
>only chance. Blood clot has developed in heart, drugs are being used to
>try to dissolve it. Patient is not stable enough to be moved, and no
>local hospital does transplants.
>Myocarditis is relatively unknown to local physicans. Is transplant the
>only option?
>Any information/suggestions you can e-mail me will be greatly
>appreciated, but time is of the essence. Also, information on hospitals
>with a history of treating Myocarditis with positive results would also
>be appreciated.
> Joe Kirkpatrick
>trist…@chatt.mindspring.com
Myocarditis is a inflammation of the heart muscle causing it to pump
poorly and often beat irregularly. It is believed to be caused as a
result of viral infections or the immune response to a viral
infection, or both. Some forms of myocarditis are drug
related–cocaine being one example. Other forms are more likely
immune, with the purest example being acute Rheumatic Fever.The most
common viral infections associated with myocarditis are Coxsackie
viruses, but unfortunately, it has yet to be shown that either
antiviral drugs or immunosuppressants have any benefit.
Transplantation is indeed a very reasonable and effective treatment.
General Internal Medicine
Sacramento, California
In article <4dpoc2$1…@stealth.mindspring.com>, Joe Kirkpatrick
<trist…@chatt.mindspring.com> writes:
>Myocarditis is relatively unknown to local physicans. Is transplant the
>only option?
Not true. I practice within 100 miles of this person, and there are
expert cardiologists in that city with vast experience in treating CHF.
The city you mention is full of expert cardiologists and the lack of
transplant facilities is more of a financial problem than an expert doctor
problem.
Do you know the most important doc in the heart transplant process ??????
No, not the surgeon.
No, not the cardiologist.
Yes, the cardiovascular pathologist. He has to deal with the multiple
biopsies which are done during and after the operation. The availability
of hearts, money, and the pathologist is the limiting factor. Any well
trained University cardiovascular surgeon could do a transplant. What we
need are HEARTS. We need people to donate so that your friend can live.