2023-05-20 03:01:21
Advances in medicine are constant, always seeking to extend human life by attacking problems that are usually common and one of the conditions that to date is difficult to combat are problems of heartespecially when a transplant is required, since the culture of organ donation is still deficient throughout the world.
Even a few months ago it was possible to put the heart of a pig in the body of a human to work, which was achieved successfully, although for other reasons some time after the subject lost his life, worse now the science it went further as it made it possible for a person to receive a heart that had been dead for 20 minutes, working again without any problem.
How was transplantation of a dead heart achieved?
This global feat was possible in a Italian hospital of the city of Paduawhich opens the door to carrying out this type of procedure in the future, since it is the first intervention with such long reaction times with the cardiac muscle, highlighting that this had already ceased all its electrical activity, which was explained by the Gino Gerosa, director of cardiac surgery.
They affirm that, although the entire procedure is similar to the common one, the exceptionality lies in the times, since the donor was a patient who went into cardiac arrest some time ago, since commonly the organ removal it is authorized between 3 and 5 minutes after a flat electrocardiogram is produced, although in Italy brain death by law can be declared up to 20 minutes later.
And it is that until now medical logic indicated that this was not possible, however, this team of doctors decided to take a risk, although previously the authorization of the National Transplant Centerafter which they did not hesitate to share their achievement, which quickly captured the international spotlight for what this breakthrough could mean.
What is known about the donor of the dead heart in Italy?
About the hero without a cape who gave a little life to another person, it was a man who had suffered cardiac death with irreversible contextual brain damage, for which reason any resuscitation attempt would no longer serve; According to Gerosa, this discovery could translate into a 30 percent increase in the number of transplants in a short time.
Although the surgery was carried out on May 11, the recipient being a 46-year-old male with heart diseasewho had already been operated on as a pediatric patient and to date had been on the waiting list for a transplant for two years and although the patient currently remains in intensive care, he has shown a favorable evolution.
For the same reasons, up to now the beneficiary has not publicly appearedbut it is expected that he will do so later to express his feelings about this historical milestone in medicine, in addition to narrating what he feels with the functioning of his new heart, in addition to the fact that he is expected to know what is the life expectancy he will have.
Originally posted on The Sun of Puebla
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