Transplantation of organs long enough to have saved dozens of lives. However, transplant surgeons over and over again do the impossible and carry out such surgical intervention, the mere mention of which is hard to fit in the head. For example, in Novosibirsk not so long ago, doctors conducted the world’s first implant patient two mechanical hearts through a unique LVAD.
The installation of the LVAD also held 20-year-old patient surgeons clinics Meshalkin in Novosibirsk. According to doctors, she developed acute heart failure as a result of wounds in the heart. She had to have surgery to transplant a donor organ, but very serious condition of the patient to permit surgical intervention. As explained in an interview with TASS Director of the Center for surgery of aorta, coronary and peripheral arteries, Alexander Chernyavskiy,
“We performed a unique operation, the first in the world, protestirovat the patient, using two pumps (mechanical hearts) as the left chamber of the heart and right. When she came to us, literally almost died, she developed multiple organ failure — was denied almost all the internal organs. After the operation has returned to normal, have stabilized. The operation was successful, the patient was discharged from the hospital, and after two or three months the girl is waiting for a donor heart transplantation”.
The operation would not have been possible without the help of scientists from Moscow, who developed the device. He is a versatile pump that works on both right and left chambers of the heart. So it turns out that both departments work in isolation from each other, as if two different devices. Develop analogues in the world yet. The pump itself is set right in the heart of the patient. The pump is suitable thin cable is connected with the control unit that is mounted on the belt of the patient. The control unit is programmed using a computer, so patients require regular visits for maintenance and adjustment of operating parameters. In conclusion, Oleksandr Cherniavsky said:
“Other similar foreign developments is able to maintain a good blood flow, but create a high pressure which is damaging to the lungs as opposed to our development.”
Novosibirsk surgeons set patient two artificial heart
Vladimir Kuznetsov