Parents Andrew Ames lately lived as in a nightmare. They lost their son Michael's seven-year due to the fact that he refused to heart. And recently taken to the hospital and Andrew, who was diagnosed with the exact same pathology - Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome , A congenital abnormality of the heart structure .. And everything suggests that the boy should follow after his brother.
But this time the medicine was much better prepared to deal with a deadly disease. Surgeons conducted by Andrew revolutionary even by today's standards of operation to install artificial cardiac pump . And now this boy, who has recently unaided could not get out of bed because of the weakness and shortness of breath, running through the streets with their peers.
At Andrew's chest is now in full working heart pump Heartware, pump blood throughout the body. It is a small device, weighing only 30 grams, is powered by the battery attached to the shoulder of the boy. Battery - the only sign that Andrew has some heart problems. In all other respects it is today is quite a full life.
Traditional medicine in such cases, a more bulky and heavy artificial heart But the principle of their action is that patients have to stay in hospital. Divays Heartware much more compact and easy to use, and doctors hope it will completely replace the artificial heart in 2020. With this device, Andrew will quietly wait for a donor heart at home rather than in a hospital ward.
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