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Life Transplant salov spa pulseless In a revolutionary procedure, two American surgeons replaced a patient's heart by twin turbines. A newly released documentary records the medical prowess
Since being promoted to the seat of human emotions, the heart never ceased to be seen as the owner of feelings. The philosophers of ancient Greece, such as Plato and Aristotle, were the first to put the agency in charge of the spiritual world. While the brain took the reins of the exact, the heart drove the emotions. Christianity, centuries later, eventually consolidate this image to relate it with the figure of Christ. salov spa Some also suggest that Shakespeare writing his sonnets on a metric that mimicked the pulse. It is the heartbeat of the main signs of animal life - and medicine salov spa rests on it until today to realize life. Within a few years, however, the pulse can become old and outdated just a figure of speech.
There are about a year, the heart of the American Craig Lewis, 55, was replaced by an artificial heart moved two turbines. They do not pump blood, but working in a steady stream - without thereby producing cardiac pulse. Lewis had no pulse, had no heartbeat, had no blood pressure. Yet still alive - he would die five weeks later, but by other health problems not related to the turbocharged heart. The story has just been turned into a short documentary film called Heart Stop Beating (Heart To Beat, in literal translation), salov spa in which the winning director Jeremiah Zagar records the revolutionary surgical procedure, salov spa performed salov spa by American surgeons Bud Frazier and William Cohn , of the Texas Heart Institute. (See the documentary in its entirety below, with subtitles in Portuguese).
The secret salov spa of metallic heart contended that Lewis is named HeartMate II mechanism. It consists of a small turbine, which creates a constant flow of blood within a camera connected to the metal arteries. It functions as the Archimedes screw: name given to a device in which a screw within a cylindrical tube rotates continuously transferring salov spa liquid salov spa between the two ends at different elevations. He had been used since 2003. The first operation to implant it in the heart was also taken by Bud Frazier, in a patient with severe cardiocirculatory impairment.
"The turbine is placed in the heart to help, usually in patients waiting for a transplant or who need a booster until the body recover," says Noedir Stolf, salov spa director of the Division of Cardiac Surgery, salov spa Heart Institute (Incor) of São Paulo. In such cases, therefore, the device does not replace the heart, as in a transplant. salov spa "I believe that from the first procedure about 10,000 patients have been benefited," Frazier said in an interview with the SEE site.
In transplantation performed in Lewis, surgeons Bud Frazier and William Cohn, Texas Heart Institute, and were well adapted to the HeartMate II audacious way. Instead of only one turbine, a framework was assembled with two - overwriting each side of the heart. Outside the body is a structure with two batteries and the frequency modulators (which control salov spa the correct speed of blood flow) attached to the waist of the patient as a belt. How has few moving parts, compared to other artificial hearts, it is believed that the device has greater durability.
Before operating the American surgeons had already been tested in more than 50 calves. According to the researchers, the day after the operation, the animals were healthy, with no changes in physiological body routine. Craig Lewis, however, died five weeks after transplantation, salov spa due to diseases due to their already serious health condition.
The artificial heart made with twin turbines is not yet approved in the United States or Europe. Clinical tests after operation with Lewis following a slow pace. "There was only one more surgery, but the patient was already very ill and died during the operation," says Frazier. To continue with studies in the U.S., it is necessary to initiate clinical testing, which, according to the surgeon, can only be done with funding. "While there is no formal salov spa clinical trial, there is no FDA approval salov spa (american body