UK’s medical fraternity has witnessesed it for the first time - it is a pioneering form of heart transplant. This amazing technique keeps the heart of the donor beating during its transportation. This technique used widely could double the number of heart transplants every year, doctors say.
It is a 58-year-old man who has made his first name in the list of UK’s such surgery. He, undergone this transplantation on May 22, should soon be well enough to go home. The procedure of this transplantation puts the heart of the donor in a device, which helps it beat, supplying it with blood. The Papworth hospital, Cambridge surgeons carried the so-called beating heart transplant out.
This surgery procedure has been performed in Germany before just three times.
Chris Rudge, managing and transplant director of UK Transplant, the NHS organisation that matches transplant donors to recipients, described the operation as
a really significant development.He further says,
I think we’ve got to be cautious because it is very preliminary, but if its possible benefits are realised I am struggling a bit to contain my excitement.
Via: The Guardian
