71-year-old pensioner from Italy, having just two hearts hit the local doctors. He managed to recover after both his body stopped working.
An elderly man, whose name is not called, moved to one of the Italian medical centers double Heart transplantation a few years ago, according to the magazine American emergency medicine journal. During this procedure, instead of the traditional replace his heart organ donor patient received a second body. In this chamber, and blood vessels of both hearts were connected to each other, to start implementing the new heart is old.
However, over time it became one of the hearts of other more powerful and began to work in a different heart rhythm. Doctors tried to synchronize the heart with the help of specially selected drugs, but instead the two bodies have ceased to beat, and the patient stopped breathing. Surprisingly, this patient was able to return to life with the help of a defibrillator within a few seconds. But doctors later replaced his pacemaker.
It all happened back in 2010, but the patient is still alive and in excellent health. As recognized by his doctor, before they are anything like this does not come across. Heterotopic heart transplant It is an extremely rare procedure in modern cardiology. Patients, of course, not real heart transplant from the donor, and special devices. If 20 years ago, they were big and expensive, but now have become much more portable.
This procedure is temporary, and the second transplanted heart only to help the real heart of the patient to recover. In exceptional cases, such as described above, patients live for years with two hearts, while maintaining the quality of life of a usual.
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