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Reporter Randy Paige interviewed me on this matter.
February 9, 2013 CBS Channel 2, KCAL9
Reporter Randy Paige interviewed me on this matter.
Dr. Magliato was recently interviewed by Susan Brender, host of V for Vitality for www.womensradio.com. This show features interviews with individuals involved in the creative arts as well as those who have discovered artful ways to draw upon their talents and passions to experience a vital way of living. The program has been expanded to discuss issues as they relate to health and vitality. The interview can be found at www.womensradio.com/2012/03/heart-and-soul-the-dr-kathy-magliato-story-part-1/
Dr. Magliato was recently interviewed with ABC NEWS on gender bias towards chronic pain
When 46-year-old Tammy Lumpkins showed up at Keck Hospital of USC in August, she needed a new heart.
Her doctors got her onto the transplant list, but as she waited, her health deteriorated. Her liver and kidneys started to fail and she couldn’t get out of bed.
“To say she was on the brink of death was an understatement,” said Dr. Michael Bowdish, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Keck Hospital.
So in late September, Bowdish implanted an artificial heart in Lumpkins to replace both of the organ’s chambers and all four valves. And on Wednesday, Lumpkins will become the first person on the West Coast to leave the hospital with such a device.
Lumpkins said she feels lucky to be alive and grateful to be leaving the hospital. Now she can watch her 19-year-old son graduate from ITT Technical Institute in December. And after nearly 20 years with heart problems, Lumpkins said Tuesday that she had renewed confidence that she would finally get better.
“I was ready to give up last summer,” she said, sitting beside her husband in front of the hospital. “Now there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s getting brighter.”
Although artificial hearts aren’t new, patients have traditionally had to stay in the hospital because the machine necessary to make them work weighed more than 400 pounds. Now, new technology allows patients to go home while they wait for heart transplants. The device, which weighs almost 14 pounds, can be carried in a small backpack.
“She can go home and live a normal life,” said Bowdish, who directs the hospital’s artificial heart program.
More than 950 people have received artificial hearts and 22 people in the United States have gone home with the lightweight devices, according to Don Isaacs, spokesman for SynCardia, the Tucson-based company that manufacturers the artificial heart. The device costs about $124,000 and an additional $18,000 a year to maintain, Isaacs said. Although the heart is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the backpack device is part of a clinical trial.
Patients can live with the artificial heart for years, although the goal is to get them transplants as soon as possible. “But the reality is there’s a wait, and sometimes a long wait,” he said.
More than 3,100 patients are waiting for heart transplants. The average wait is 168 days, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
“The supply doesn’t meet the demand,” said Dr. Kathy E. Magliato, a cardiothoracic surgeon and president of the American Heart Assn. board in Los Angeles. An artificial heart can save the lives of patients who cannot wait for transplants, she said.
Lumpkins, who lives near Modesto, was 28 when she was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a disease that weakens and enlarges the heart. Five years later, doctors told her she had congestive heart failure. Since early 2010, Lumpkins said, she has been in and out of the hospital. Her husband, Dale, an electrician, said his insurance will pay for some of the medical bills.
Because she must stay relatively close to the hospital, Lumpkins will live temporarily at a friend’s house in Hemet and return weekly for checkups. After the holidays, Bowdish said, he plans to actively start looking for a transplant heart.
With the machine pumping loudly beside her Tuesday, Lumpkins said she was nervous. “It’s scary not knowing what’s going to happen,” she said. “But I’m feeling 100% better than I ever did.”
Following the surgery to implant her artificial heart in September, Lumpkins and her husband renewed their wedding vows after 22 years of marriage. “I told her that her new heart had to love me as much as her old heart had,” he said.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/09/local/la-me-artificial-heart-20111109
ABC NEWS
By BEN FORER
July 6, 2011
Top 5 Symptoms of Heart Disease in Women
1. Fatigue
2. Shortness of Breath
3. Indigestion, Upper Abdominal Pain or Nausea
4. Jaw or Throat Pain
5. Arm Pain (Especially the left arm)
“The most common way women present with heart disease is dead, dead on arrival,” Dr. Kathy Magliato, cardiothoracic surgeon at Saint John’s Health Center in Los Angeles, told ABC News. “Women tend to downplay their symptoms, and they tend to wait longer to come to the hospital, and that’s why they die at home.”
Every year since 1984 more women than men have died of heart disease, said Magliato, and 50 percent of all women never experience chest pains.
While heart disease is the No. 1 killer of both men and women, in recent years, as deaths attributed to the disease have declined, the drop has been much less significant in women.
“We have to think of this disease as a woman’s disease, it’s not a man’s disease,” said Magliato, who is also president of the American Heart Association of Greater Los Angeles. “The symptoms between men and women are so drastically different that what women believe is heart disease is really men’s heart disease.”
A new report from the Society for Women’s Health Research and Women Heart cites a lack of gender-specific research and insufficient recruitment of women and minorities for trials as the main obstacles in detecting and diagnosing cardiovascular disease.
“Improved participation rates of women and minorities in CVD trial research would result in more appropriate prevention and early detection, accurate diagnosis and proper treatment of all women with heart disease,” according to the report.
Another reason heart disease is more difficult to diagnose in women than in men is that abnormal blood vessel function happens on a smaller scale in women.
“Women tend to get disease at the level of … microvessels, which are very small, very tiny vessels that supply the blood to the heart,” said Magliato. “Men tend to get blockages in the larger blood vessels of the heart, the blood vessels that we see when we do our typical studies for diagnosing heart disease.”
Magliato said that the best precautionary step a woman can take against heart disease, in addition to eating well and becoming active, is knowing the symptoms. She said women need to listen to their bodies, and if they have one or more of these top symptoms, they should see a doctor immediately.
Tune in tonight! Dr. Kathy Magliato will be speaking with Diane Sawyer about Heart Disease in women on ABC Nightly News tonight. The topic will be Top 5 Symptoms of Heart Disease in Women.
Dr. Kathy Magliato received the honor of being named one of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s 100 Inspirational Alumni. Kathy received her MBA in 2006: www.anderson.ucla.edu/x32548.xml
The list of the 100 Inspirational Alumni at UCLA Anderson: www.anderson.ucla.edu/x35758.xml