Have you ever imagined to have two hearts in your body? This seemingly absurd thing actually happened in India. The man who was called Suresh from Kerala, India is really living with two hearts in his body. How does this happen and does it affect her health condition?
All started from the condition of heart failure experienced by this 45-year-old man. In order to save his life, the hospitals Kovai Medical Middle and Hospital in Coimbatore, India, had to perform heteroptic heart transplant surgery is very rarely done before. In this heart transplant process, the patient's heart will not be taken before the donor heart is paired. The donor heart must also be confirmed with the patient's body and not rejected. Luckily, surgery performed on May 30, 2017 and this successfully done and make Suresh has two hearts in his body.
Dr. Prasanth Vaijyanath, a thoracic-thoracic surgery consultant from Kovai Medical Middle and Hospital hospital, said that this operation should be done given Suresh is beginning to experience very high lung pressures. Because of this condition, he was not able to perform the usual heart transplant surgery where before the donor heart is installed, the original heart is removed first.
What is interesting about the heart transplant surgery procedure performed on Suresh is that the donor's heart is from a woman's body. The size of the donor heart is also smaller than Suresh's heart. Luckily, the size of this heart was very suitable placed in the chest of Suresh although the chest cavity is still there the original heart. Now, Suresh's real heart only works 10 percent and the rest of his work is done by a very good donor heart.
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All started from the condition of heart failure experienced by this 45-year-old man. In order to save his life, the hospitals Kovai Medical Middle and Hospital in Coimbatore, India, had to perform heteroptic heart transplant surgery is very rarely done before. In this heart transplant process, the patient's heart will not be taken before the donor heart is paired. The donor heart must also be confirmed with the patient's body and not rejected. Luckily, surgery performed on May 30, 2017 and this successfully done and make Suresh has two hearts in his body.
Dr. Prasanth Vaijyanath, a thoracic-thoracic surgery consultant from Kovai Medical Middle and Hospital hospital, said that this operation should be done given Suresh is beginning to experience very high lung pressures. Because of this condition, he was not able to perform the usual heart transplant surgery where before the donor heart is installed, the original heart is removed first.
What is interesting about the heart transplant surgery procedure performed on Suresh is that the donor's heart is from a woman's body. The size of the donor heart is also smaller than Suresh's heart. Luckily, the size of this heart was very suitable placed in the chest of Suresh although the chest cavity is still there the original heart. Now, Suresh's real heart only works 10 percent and the rest of his work is done by a very good donor heart.
