A Cure for Heart Disease

Heart Disease in the USA

When someone has heart disease, it means the blood vessels in their heart have become clogged. This can lead to a heart attack.

A patient with clogged arteries can get treatments such as angioplasties or coronary bypass surgeries, but these options only treat or manage symptoms - they do not cure heart disease.

How big is this problem?

Heart disease is one of the most common and costly diseases in the United States:

• Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

• One person dies every 37 seconds from cardiovascular disease in the United States

• About 647,000 Americans die from heart disease each year - that’s 1 in every 4 deaths

• Heart disease costs the United States about $219 billion / year (this includes the cost of healthcare services, medicines, and lost productivity)

3D Printing replacement heart vessels

Jay Hoying and his team at Advanced Solutions Life Sciences are working toward a real cure for clogged arteries: printing replacement blood vessels for the heart using their 3D printing technology.

In the future, if a patient could receive a new blood vessel to replace the damaged one in their heart, they could be cured of heart disease and drastically lower their risk of having a heart attack.