He first successfully operated a dead heart transplant

Surgery to stop heart transplantation has been successfully conducted by doctors at Papworth Hospital, England. This is also a medical feat first recorded throughout Europe.

The first successful heart transplant surgery in the UK

Heart transplant surgery is an extremely difficult and dangerous process and heart donation usually occurs in the case of a brain death but the heart is still beating. But in this case, the donor organ was transferred from a cadaver in a heart and lung condition that had stopped working.

The surgical team led by Dr. Stenphen Large at Papworth Lung Heart Hospital spent more than a decade of research on this heart transplant technique before successfully performing the surgery on early March. The cardiac patient was Huseyin Ulucan, 60, in London. Mr. Ulucan suffered a heart attack in 2008 and before his operation, he could hardly walk. After the surgery, Ulucan patients only took 4 days in the postoperative room and the recovery was very positive. Doctors said that the patient was able to re-examine the hospital himself and the quality of life is improving markedly.

The patient is undergoing a heart transplant surgery.(Daily Mail photo)

For transplanting a heart with no beating, it is worrisome that it cannot coordinate kidney, liver and other organs in the recipient because it has been damaged . The success of this surgery is due to the use of Organ Care System, also known as the ' heart box' , used at St Vincent Hospital, Sydney last year, to emergency for a cardiac arrest 20 minutes. In a heart replacement surgery for Ulucan patients, doctors use the donor's heart to no longer have the ability to circulate.

OCS helps restore heart function before a heart transplant

Immediately after receiving the donor body, doctors used ultrasound to evaluate the function of the heart that was restarted in 50 minutes before deciding that the heart was eligible for transplantation for a heart replacement patient. or not Next, they will remove the heart from the donor's body and place it in an organ care system, also known as a " heart in box" machine . The heart is " fed" with blood and other nutrients to continue beating for 3 hours.

Doctors hope that with the above medical achievements, the appropriate number of heart donations for patients waiting for heart transplant will increase significantly, and that more heart patients will be saved.