The heart of the matter
The countdown began at midnight in Baltimore’s University of Maryland Hospital. At this time, doctors have the delicate task of eliminating the heart and lungs of 32 years of a victim of a car accident, says brain dead several hours earlier. Work quickly, they remain the bodies cooled to 45 degrees F and transports in the city Johns Hopkins Hospital. Clinton House, 28, a refrigeration engineer, whose actions have been devastated cystic fibrosis, the cargo was his apartment and was in the wheels of the operations room. He had waited a year at this time. In a room of ten meters, doctors prepare John Couch, 38, Yardley, Pennsylvania, was the penalty, advanced cardiovascular disease.
During the next seven hours, the two teams to work quickly, the elimination of the house emergency zones lungs and the heart of its operation, to leave, surgeon Bruce Reitz later than “very dramatic empty” in his chest. The doctors had decided it was easier and safer to replace both the heart and lungs, lung is not alone. What Reitz team began implementing a heart and lungs the victim, House’s heart was crashed in the coming space where the surgeon William Baumgartner sutured it piggyback on his sofa in Distress heart. With 10 doctors’m exhausted their tasks and made American Medical history. It was the first time the USA, only one had given her heart, in which what is considered a “donor domino” Organ of the exchange. Officials in Harefield Hospital in London last week, revealed that Dr. Magdi Yacoub had actually the first, with dominoes lies in the approach April.
The weekend the two patients were seated in chairs, at home and had even enjoyed his first post-op Hamburger. House was happy to serve as a donor and the recipient body, said his mother Joyce Plesic. “He said, if someone could help, it should help someone else.” Divan wife Peggy said she was pleased that her husband might have a chance for the man who gave his heart. Doctors say that Get-together may occur this week.
For the home, the transplant was a last resort in a fight for life with cystic fibrosis. FC victims produce little thick, sticky and other secretions of mucus that block normal affect lung function and digestion. Babies born with cystic fibrosis died in early infancy, but today more than half of its first 20 years, thanks to a series of medicines, control lung infections, digestion and limit secretions. Still, few survive beyond the age of 30 House lung were only gone, “said his father, and for a period of three years, he had an oxygen tank, then it is installed l air conditioning.
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