Mary Mariner had a heart attack, caused by COVID-19. My dad called 911, Mariner s daughter Stacy White explained. So within 48 hours of the onset of her symptoms, she was already in critical condition. Once they drive off in the ambulance and you think, I did the most I could do, Larry Mariner said. Then, Will I ever see her again?
Mary Mariner had profound heart failure caused by COVID-19, a rare condition that needed special help for her to have any chance to survive. That s when it was time to call Baylor, said White, a nurse at Baylor University Medical Center s lung transplant unit.
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Women awaiting liver transplants in the United States are known to be about one-third more likely than men to become too ill to undergo surgery or die before receiving a liver. Now a study headed by UC San Francisco and Columbia University highlights the role that frailty plays in this gender gap.
The study followed 1,405 patients with cirrhosis, of whom 41 percent were women, awaiting liver transplantation at nine transplant centers in the United States. The men, whose ages ranged from 49 to 63, were more likely to have chronic hepatitis C and alcoholic liver disease (27 percent versus 22, and 33 percent versus 19 percent). The women, whose ages ranged from 50 to 63, were more likely to have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and autoimmune cholestatic liver disease (23 percent versus 16 percent, and 23 percent versus 9 percent).
For Jennifer Dingle, doing the impossible started after a phone call from her mother four years ago, while Jennifer and her husband Jason were stationed in Italy. She called me one day and told me, You re never going to believe what I saw on the news. And I said, What? Jennifer Dingle said.
Her mother had heard about a new clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center that could potentially create a new option for women with uterine factor infertility.
An estimated 1 in 500 women of reproductive age experience absolute uterine factor infertility, which means they can’t get pregnant because they don’t have a functional uterus.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 has become the country s leading cause of death, surpassing heart disease and cancer.
By Will Maddox
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December 21, 2020
3:53 pm
Over the past two weeks, the availability of intensive care unit beds in regional hospitals has hovered between 83 and 60, even though there were nearly 800 ICU beds available early in the pandemic.
According to state data, COVID-19 patients make up 21.1 percent of staffed beds in the area’s hospitals, the highest mark Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council CEO and President Steve Love has ever seen. The 83 beds available are spread thinly over a 19 county area in North Texas. In Dallas County, there were just 16 ICU beds available at one point last week, with only seven in Collin County and three in Denton County.
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