United Kingdom, 12-year-old little girl Hannah-Clark 1996 by cardiomyopathy accept heart implant surgery. Become a "dual core" and live 10 years later, in February this year Hannah and cardiac tumor removed so that the "original" heart back "to return to work."
United Kingdom doctors 13 announced that Hanna surgery, she became the first in the history of the United Kingdom to replace Cardiac Allograft and to restore the original cardiac function in patients.
2-year-old man to become double heart
Living in the United Kingdom Wales South Mountain ash's Hannah or 2-year-old when he was diagnosed with heart disease, heart is twice the normal size. Due to the excessive pressure to bear, her heart failure in a year, causing her death.
To save the life of Hannah, United Kingdom, the famous heart transplant expert Sir Magdi-Jacob lead a medical team on Hannah had heterotopic heart transplantation surgery, in her right breast implantation in a "secondary" heart, "located on the left instead of the original" heart.
10 years after surgery, Hannah's body is not an exception. However, in November 2005 of a routine examination found that she began to produce Cardiac Allograft rejection.
New treatment methods
To save her daughter lives again, Clark couple urge London Great Ormond Street Hospital extraction and Hannah in heart transplantation, and restore the original function of the heart. 70-year-old Jacob Jazz agree with "again", as Hannah as a consultant on surgical group. 20 February this year of operation was a great success.
United Kingdom Heart Foundation medical officer Peter-Weisberg says, the medical profession had doubts about accepting "assisted heart" transplantation, the original heart patients can resume feature.
"Surgeon, like United Kingdom Heart Foundation's Jacob had thought that jazz because heart failure and acute inflammation is no longer functioning, it is also available for recovery. The operation description This is viable, assisted heart can make patients heart a rest, "Weisberg says," today, we will adopt a new treatment methods, one called Ventricular assist device for mechanical cardiac implants to replace cardiac patients with inflammatory, appears for a few months later, cardiac rehabilitation, and then apply the instrument. ”
"Ten years ago, this instrument is not credible, is why Hannah in your own heart transplant heart next to accept the one," he said.
Creating new records
Back to the "original" heart, Hannah, the good news is that she will no longer taking drugs against rejection; on surgical medical group, it means that the creation of a United Kingdom records. Group a spokesman said: "we believe that this case is the first case of United Kingdom. ”
Clark's wife, Hannah love life, looks forward to return after Easter mountain Ash House.
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