The article covers advanced surgical procedures that use robots and tiny
incisions (instead of cutting through the breast bone), and laser drills to
improve blood flow, gene therapy (the Apo-1 Milano gene produces protective
proteins similar to HDLs), drugs, genetically engineered animal heart
transplants, and so on.
The most fascinating device I found was an assist pump "called the
Streamliner under development by Bartley Griffith, a cardiologist at the
University of Pittsburgh. The Streamliner, about the size of a D-cell
battery, whirls like a tiny turbine, pumping blood not in heartbeats but in
a continuous flow: patients who get it will have no pulse."
Walking around with no pulse! Now that's extropian chic!
Max
Max More, Ph.D.
more@extropy.org
http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore
President, Extropy Institute: exi-info@extropy.org, http://www.extropy.org