Paediatric heart transplant surgery. The surgeon (right) inspects the recently-introduced donor heart,still connected to a heart-lung machine (behind surgeon). The patient,a boy aged 48 days,was suffering from a potentially fatal congenital heart defect. Throughout the operation,the function of the heart & lungs was taken over by a machine,& the boy's body temperature cooled to 15 degrees C. The defective heart was replaced with a donor organ; connections to blood vessels were made using sutures 1/3 the size of a human hair. With the heart in place,body temperature was gradually restored to normal; warm blood flushed into the new heart caused it to begin to beat | |
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