Name: How I repaired my own heart
Uploaded: 2012-04-12T15:00:36Z
Duration: 12 min 57 s
Description: Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair job.

Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair job.

Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart

How I repaired my own heart

An engineer turns his Marfan syndrome diagnosis into a mission, ingeniously creating a bespoke aortic support without anticoagulants.

Harnessing his process engineering expertise, the speaker develops an external aortic wrap, showcasing personalized medicine's potential.

Multidisciplinary collaboration fuses engineering and medicine, overcoming obstructive conservatism to innovate heart surgery.