The transplant was flown from the Antilles to Paris in the cabin of an Air France commercial flight and became the first successful heart transplant to be transported to Europe from the other side of the Atlantic, opening up new perspectives for scientists.
The heart transplant, with the graft from the US Antilles, was performed by surgeons in Paris.
The heart donor was a 48-year-old man in the French West Indies (or French West Indies) in the Caribbean who was declared brain dead three days after suffering a stroke.
The graft was flown to Paris in the cabin of an Air France commercial flight and kept for twelve hours. The transplant recipient was a 70-year-old man who was discharged from the hospital 30 days after the operation.
The operation was performed by Dr. Guillaume Lebreton, a heart surgeon at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, who accompanied the transplant during the trip.
As he told Euronews Health, the procedure was carried out as part of a pilot study, the aim of which is to show that it is possible to increase maintenance times, beyond the usual four hours, to 12 or even 14 hours.
In this context, hearts from donors from Guadeloupe and Martinique are kept in a special refrigerated device (XVIVO) where a pump injects blood and oxygen into the heart.
According to the surgeon it was the first time a heart had flown over the Atlantic Ocean, covering a distance of 6,750 kilometers to Paris.
It is “a feat unimaginable until now in organ transplantation,” Lebreton and his colleague Pascal Leprince wrote in an article published in The Lancet.
The pilot study will continue until seven heart transplants preserved in this way have been performed, which doctors aim to do within 36 months.
If the study continues successfully, many things will change in heart transplantation, because right now we are fighting against time, said Lebreton.
“If we remove this time restriction, we will also remove geographical restrictions at the same time,” he added.
According to the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare, in 2022 around 7,000 people in Europe will die while waiting for an organ transplant.
Source: iatropedia
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