Baby Vincent 4 weeks old. Dr Hanafy & the transplant team. World first: Baby born after uterus transplant The Ramsay Way - 2014 | 04 9 GMRF Clinical Trials Unit awarded Best Site 2014 THE CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT (CTU) OF THE GALLIPOLI MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION AT GREENSLOPES PRIVATE HOSPITAL HAS BEEN AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS BEST SITE 2014 BY ARCS AUSTRALIA LTD. APRIL JOSEPHSEN WAS DELIGHTED TO ACCEPT THE AWARD ON BEHALF OF ALL THE CTU TEAM AT THE ARCS SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS IN SYDNEY. Miriam Dwyer (CEO, GMRF) said: “We would also like to share this award with the following people who we work closely with every day: the team at the Cyril Gilbert Cancer Centre, GPH Pharmacy, APHS, QLD X-Ray, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, and the doctors’ receptionists who help with appointment scheduling. Last but not least, we thank our patients who make it all worthwhile!” Pacemaker also detects sleep apnoea IN AN AUSTRALIAN FIRST, CARDIOLOGISTS AT JOHN FLYNN PRIVATE HOSPITAL HAVE RECENTLY INSERTED A NEW PACEMAKER CONTAINING AN ALGORITHM WHICH DETECTS SLEEP APNOEA. Sleep apnoea is highly prevalent and vastly undiagnosed in many pacemaker patients. It increases the mortality risk and the risk of common cardiovascular co-morbidities such as hypertension, atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF). Moreover, sleep apnoea complicates the management of common cardiovascular co-morbidities. John Flynn cardiologist Dr Jon Meulet inserted the new pacemaker – the Sorin Reply 200 - into patient Doreen Grant in September. “The procedure went very well and Mrs Grant is now resting comfortably at home”, said Dr Meulet. “The REPLY 200 provides us with an intuitive tool to offer more comprehensive care to our patients. “Many of our pacemaker patients have co-morbidities such as hypertension and AF. If cardiovascular medical treatment is not working as well as expected for the patient, we can easily check whether sleep apnoea is a complicating factor and adjust the treatment plan accordingly,” he said. New Orthopaedic Consulting Rooms at Westmead Private Central West Orthopaedics and Sports Injuries will shortly open in new state-of-the-art consulting suites at Westmead Private Hospital. The group comprises seven orthopaedic surgeons who have been practising in Western Sydney for over 17 years. Their services will include hip and knee replacement (including minimally invasive techniques); hand surgery; revision surgery; shoulder replacement; cartilage grafting; foot and ankle surgery; arthroscopic ligament reconstruction of shoulder and knee and cruciate ligament repair. Patient thanks John Flynn with bagpipe performance Mr Lou Pinder, 71 years old, received a quadruple coronary bypass at John Flynn Private earlier this year and thanked all involved in his care by playing the bag pipes in the hospital’s Fountain Garden area in October. Mr Pinder is of Scottish heritage and thankful that he can continue to play the bag pipes after his surgery which was performed by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Ben Anderson. During his ICU stay where he was looked after by Dr Iain Johnston also of Scottish heritage, Mr Pinder said he would return and play the bagpipes when he was well enough. JOHN FLYNN PRIVATE HOSPITAL OBSTETRICIAN & GYNAECOLOGIST DR ASH HANAFY WAS RECENTLY INVOLVED IN THE WORLD’S FIRST BABY BORN AFTER A UTERUS TRANSPLANT WHICH OCCURRED IN SWEDEN IN SEPTEMBER. A 36 year-old woman has given birth to a healthy baby boy after receiving the uterus transplant from a live donor in 2013. To mark their baby's birth as a victory over their difficult journey to parenthood, they named him Vincent, meaning "to conquer". Dr Hanafy and Dr Mats Brännström, Swedish-based Professor of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, have been researching uterine transplantation for over ten years and performed the world’s first uterus transplant in Sweden in 2012. Uterus transplantation is used to treat women who have either no uterus or a non-functional uterus. It has been attempted 11 times worldwide, but until now no live births have resulted from the procedure. The 36 year-old patient was born with congenital absence of the uterus, known as Rokitansky syndrome. She underwent a uterus transplant from a postmenopausal woman aged 61 years, who had previously born two children. "Our success is based on more than 10 years of intensive animal research and surgical training by our team and opens up the possibility of treating many young females worldwide that suffer from uterine infertility. What is more, we have demonstrated the feasibility of live-donor uterus transplantation, even from a postmenopausal donor," Dr Brännström said in a recent news release. Joe Badolato (Professional Development Manager, ARCS Australia) presents the award to April Josephsen (GMRF Ethics Coordinator). Lou Pinder plays the bagpipes in John Flynn’s Fountain Garden following surgery Dr John Meulet
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