09/24/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Dr. Gail Jarvik from the UW Medicine Division of Medical Genetics, and Dr. Katrina Dipple, from Seattle Children's Genetic Medicine, explain how the new clinical site will serve adult and pediatric ...
09/18/2020
Type: YouTube
Any virus can infect heart-muscle cells, but the novel coronavirus appears to have a particularly detrimental effect, which cardiologists are trying to understand. Autopsy studies of very sick...
08/31/2018
Type: MediaAMP
In the first week after Oregon Health Sciences University suspended its heart-transplantation program, eight of those patients were transferred to UW Medicine in Seattle.
"Our primary commitment is...
07/16/2018
Type: MediaAMP
During assessment of a hip injury, patient Debbie Davis was found to have a failing aortic valve. But a congenital abnormality made the typical valve-replacement approach risky, and the impending hip...
06/26/2018
Type: MediaAMP
"I feel at least 20, 25 years younger," says Warren Buck, 72, a baby-boomer who has rediscovered his active self a year after his second hip replacement at Northwest Hospital and Medical Center.
His...
02/09/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Hopefully, as Valentine’s Day nears, you aren't feeling brokenhearted. Perhaps surprisingly, though, broken heart syndrome is an actual medical condition.
It's a form of cardiomyopathy, or a...
11/30/2017
Type: MediaAMP
Patient Paul Hamilton and transplant surgeon Dr. Jorge Reyes discusses the experience after a transplant involving a "liver in a box" device.
11/28/2017
Type: MediaAMP
Surgeons at UW Medicine in Seattle have performed the first liver transplant in the Pacific Northwest involving a warm blood-perfusion device to transport the organ between donor and recipient....
11/14/2017
Type: MediaAMP
David Yamashita talks about his mother, Patty, who died by suicide after suffering from mental illness. The video is one of the real-life stories incorporated into a six-hour interactive training...
08/17/2017
Type: MediaAMP
On July 17, 2017, a UW Medicine team performed the first-ever catheter-based surgical laceration to replace a failing artificial aortic valve. The patient, Myra Gaines of Kennewick, Washington, has a...