Peasant woman's heart puts back to the thorax after having

Peasant woman's heart puts back to the thorax after having a facelift outside the body
01:59 on August 15, 2010

It is reported ' Reporter Wei Ming's speech reporter Zhang Heng) One has peasant women of mountain area 57 years old with enormous heart of deformity to leave hospital healthily yesterday. Recently, she succeeded in accepting " bad heart " in BJ Union Hospital External plastic operation.

In the past more than 30 years, this peasant woman endures rheumatic heart disease to the fullest extent to torment, not merely lose basic viability gradually, the long-term mitral stenosis still causes the propping up constantly big of atrium sinistrum, obviously oppress the heart and lungs function, the lung is infected and declined and broken out with the heart repeatedly, the life causes anxiety.

Checked carefully and considered repeatedly, the heart head of the department of surgery Professor Miao Qi in Peking Union Medical College Hospital persuades the colleague, determine, take risks peasant woman " The bad heart " Take out it outside the body, after having a facelift, making a reduction of, holding, transplant, answer in the body and then. In medical science, this is known as " heart transplant of body of since the normal position " .

When the operation begins, connect with various monitoring and instrument circuit which the life supports on the bed, peasant woman of general anesthesia has already entered the extracorporal circulatory system state quickly. The leading doctor opens the chest resolutely, over the past 30 years, having the great heart that deforms propped up seriously has been taken out, nearly fill a stainless steel basin with.

Under pouring into the cooperation of teacher and anaesthetist, the heart surgeon excises partly the enormous atrium sinistrum rapidly, have repaired narrow bicuspid valve and odd-shaped tricuspid valve again, and " survive " outside the body of heart Terminal time - --In 40 minutes, will have a facelift and reduce the heart after holding and put back to the peasant woman's thorax in situ.

Professor Miao Qi introduces, this is in history in Peking Union Medical College Hospital, the transfer operation of body heart of since the normal position that success finishes for the first time. Though repair and hold the result to the reducing of enormous atrium sinistrum of deformity obviously outside the body, but the operation is complicated, very risky, rare clinical report.

Peasant woman's heart puts back to the thorax after having a facelift outside the body