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This week's topics include risks of hysterectomy, a rise in maternal deaths in the US, increasing numbers of women choosing double mastectomy, and improved devices to bridge people to transplant.
Program notes:
0:30 First increase in maternal mortality in decades
1:27 Convenience or previous C-section
2:18 Multifactorial cause for increase
3:37 Risk for subsequent pregnancy
4:13 Double mastectomy
4:45 Women with genetic abnormality
5:50 Still need routine follow up
6:30 Stress incontinence after hysterectomy
7:30 Hysterectomy overdone
7:57 Devices to support patients before transplant
8:58 LVAD
9:47 Artificial lung
10:24 Limited donor lungs
11:23 Lung transplant less successful
12:11 End
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