A unique operation took place at the Almazov National Medical Research Center in St. Petersburg.
At the age of eight, a young patient from Saransk required a vital organ transplant. The first operation was performed on the child in India. However, a month after it, doctors began to observe the first complications associated with the body's reaction to donor tissues.
Three years after the operation, doctors decided to transplant the organ. The boy was put on the waiting list for a donor heart.
April 12, Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery No. 3, N.M. VA Almazov, cardiac surgeon Vadim Konstantinovich Grebennik performed a complex operation – it lasted 4.5 hours. Information about this is published on the website of the medical institution.
“Despite all the difficulties, the doctors of the Almazov Center managed to successfully perform this operation. This is very encouraging, because we have proven that we can save little patients by organ transplantation. And one of the most difficult types of transplantation is heart transplantation, ”noted the Head of the Research Laboratory of Thoracic Surgery at the Almazov Center, Ph.D. German Viktorovich Nikolaev. He expressed hope that the child will live long, like other patients of the center after a heart transplant.
Earlier “Letidor” wrote about another unique operation, which was carried out by doctors from Kemerovo – they sewed the boy's ear, which was practically torn off.
Photo: Press Service of the Almazov Center
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