On July 16, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University announced the success of the world's first "non-ischemic" heart transplant.
This is the first time that the hospital's "non-ischemic" organ transplantation technology has been applied to the field of heart transplantation after liver transplantation and kidney transplantation.
At 14:00 on June 26, a 67-year-old patient named Fober, who was diagnosed with "dilated cardiomyopathy", and the recipient donor entered the operating room at the same time.
More than 40 medical staff have been involved in an unprecedented "heart-changing battle".
As the surgeon quickly and neatly placed the tube and blocked it, the extracorporeal donor heart perfusion began to work. The donor heart freed from the pericardial cavity was beating vigorously in the organ groove without stopping, and remained normal. The body temperature is transferred to the recipient's operating room.
The "non-ischemic" heart transplant operation lasted 4.5 hours, realizing the transplantation of the donor's heart to the recipient without interrupting the blood supply and "stopping".
Forber returned to the extracardiothoracic ICU after the operation, and the tracheal intubation was removed 36 hours after the operation.
At present, the functions of the heart and various organs have recovered smoothly, and he can be discharged from the hospital in the near future.
"Non-ischemic" organ transplantation can be extended to heart, lung, kidney and other transplantation fields, and can be promoted to other regions around the world. It has broad application prospects.
(Cai Minjie and Liang Jiayun produced by Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Fang Jialiang]