{"id":1053041,"date":"2011-01-22T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/after-a-lung-transplant-an-aria-a-story-of-survival-from-end-stage-pulmonary-hypertension\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:41","slug":"after-a-lung-transplant-an-aria-a-story-of-survival-from-end-stage-pulmonary-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/after-a-lung-transplant-an-aria-a-story-of-survival-from-end-stage-pulmonary-hypertension.php","title":{"rendered":"After a lung transplant, an aria: a story of survival from end-stage pulmonary hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvwQXwJyaj0\">TED talks<\/a>: \"You'll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival -- of her body, from a double lung transplant -- and of her spirit, fueled by an unwavering will to sing. A powerful story from TEDMED 2011.\"<\/p><p>Tillemann-Dick was diagnosed in 2004 &ndash; at the age of 20 &ndash; with Idiopathic Pulmonary Hypertension, a disease that causes high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, which connects the heart to the lungs. People with the disease typically have a two-to-five-year mortality rate after diagnosis.<\/p><div><\/div><div>Her physicians at Johns Hopkins put her on the lung transplant list at Cleveland Clinic. In September 2009, organs became available, and she had a double lung transplant. After a 13-hour surgery and 2 cardiac arrests in the OR, her recovery was extremely complicated but she is happy to be able to sing again.<\/div><div><div><\/div><div>If you have a minute, don't forget to check the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvwQXwJyaj0\">on YouTube<\/a> and the TED Talks site.<\/div><div><\/div><div>References:<\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/heart\/success\/faith-hope-and-charity.aspx\">Faith, Hope... and Charity<\/a>. Cleveland Clinic.<\/div><\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival -- of her body, from a double lung transplant -- &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/after-a-lung-transplant-an-aria-a-story-of-survival-from-end-stage-pulmonary-hypertension.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}