The whole artificial heart succeeds in transplanting in U.S.A.

The whole artificial heart succeeds in transplanting in U.S.A.
At the beginning of January of 2011, the surgeon of U.S.A. Santiago University of California UCSD medical center is that a patient transplants the heart, the one different from transplanting the heart in the past is, the organ transplanted this time is an artificial heart.

UCSD medical center declares: "The artificial heart has already been transplanted before this, but the operation of January 7 is the artificial openheart surgery that is carried on in the west coast for the first time. "

"The whole artificial heart to those people who have just lost kidney, liver, intestines, lung and brain function, it is a very good apparatus. Perhaps the patient has already approached the organ depletedly, but the damage of the organ remains reversible. " Heart transplant director and machinery of UCSD medical center circulate supporter Jack and Copelan to talk about in a statement, "in most cases, as the whole artificial heart is planted into the human body, so long as the patient is not too old, weak, or suffers from other chronic organ diseases, the patient is able to resume metabolism. "

In the transfer operation of the whole artificial heart, the surgeon, through maintaining the oxygen and flow in whole body of blood with the heart-lung machine, remove the heart of necrosis at the same time, only leave one of hearts to connect the artificial heart. After the apparatus is connected well, the surgeon turns off the heart-lung machine, the heart begins to beat by 8 liters of blood of every minute. A few days later, a lot of patients begin to breathe in freedom. Less than two weeks, they can already leave the bed and walk over 30 meters, and begin to resume nourishing, prepare the arrival of a real heart.

The operation that was carried on in 1985, make Copelan succeed in using artificial heart as transplanting the surgeon of the bridge who supports the body as the first. Later, he helped to establish Syncardia Company to make artificial heart for the mankind, and served the board of directors of the company irrespective of payly. Whether Syncardia Company in research at present, can let the patient who uses the artificial heart leave the hospital safely, wait to supply the heart matched at home.

(Wang JinShuang compiles)



The whole artificial heart succeeds in transplanting in U.S.A.