FSTDT Forums

Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: rosenewock21 on January 20, 2012, 10:25:44 am

Title: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: rosenewock21 on January 20, 2012, 10:25:44 am
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-two-hearts-survives-double-heart-attack-223043465.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-two-hearts-survives-double-heart-attack-223043465.html)

Chock this one up as our news of the weird for today. A man who has two hearts, the second was implanted on the belief his first heart was going to fail, had dual heart attacks. Not only that:
Quote
Doctors then were able to successfully use a defibrillator to revive both hearts simultaneously.  He's now reportedly doing well with his two functioning hearts.

I don't know whether to comment on his insane luck at beating the odds or what must be a massive will to live.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 20, 2012, 10:27:50 am
/insert Doctor Who Timelord joke here

In all seriousness, that's pretty good! I was born with double of lots of things there shouldn't be double of but not hearts. Good that he survived that. That is some luck!
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Eniliad on January 20, 2012, 10:35:57 am
That's fucked up. Glad he's doing okay.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Radiation on January 20, 2012, 10:51:02 am
Wow... interesting. It's also cool that he has two hearts.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: N. De Plume on January 20, 2012, 10:51:45 am
That is totally fucked up and totally awesome all at once.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: rosenewock21 on January 20, 2012, 10:57:45 am
That is totally fucked up and totally awesome all at once.

This. This was the appropriate response my brain couldn't muster up when I first saw this story.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Old Viking on January 20, 2012, 04:04:13 pm
When all is functioning properly his blood must circulate really, really fast.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Eniliad on January 20, 2012, 04:36:10 pm
Hell if I know... how does having two hearts work out? :o
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Zygarde on January 20, 2012, 05:25:41 pm
The whole two hearts thing reminds me of the Krogan from Mass Effect and there two organ deal which would be cool if we could implement it in modern medicine.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: rosenewock21 on January 20, 2012, 05:27:16 pm
Hell if I know... how does having two hearts work out? :o

The article mentioned something about it causing irregularities in his circulation.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 20, 2012, 05:38:50 pm
I keep wondering if you could get both hearts' rates close enough to show beat frequency.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: Kain on January 21, 2012, 01:53:07 am
That is totally fucked up and totally awesome all at once.

Heh, no argument here.
Title: Re: Man with two hearts has dual heart attacks
Post by: ThunderWulf on January 21, 2012, 11:36:48 am
That is totally fucked up and totally awesome all at once.

I literally don't even know what else to say to this.