For many patients with heart failure, an artificial heart is one of the important means to help them return to their normal lives. Recently, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital received a patient with synchronized failure of his left and right ventricles. In order to save the patient's life, the doctor decided to implant him with two "artificial hearts". This is also the first successful case of one-time double "artificial heart" implantation in Jiangsu.

During the Spring Festival this year, Mr. Li from Chuzhou, Anhui Province, had repeated colds, nausea and vomiting. Mr. Li said: "At home, I have no energy to walk, sometimes I have difficulty breathing, and I have edema on my body. ”

After examination by Drum Tower Hospital, Mr. Li's heart was enlarged, and the function of the double ventricular pumps was severely impaired due to the synchronized failure of the left and right ventricles, and the traditional single ventricular assist scheme could not meet the needs of systemic circulatory support. After multi-department consultation, one-time placement of bicardiac assistance has become the best plan, but the difficulty and risk of surgery are not small.

Pan Jun, deputy director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, said: "The patient's right atrial wall is relatively thin, and the first worry is bleeding, the second worry is the ratio and adjustment of the postoperative flow rate between the left heart assist and the right heart pump, and the third worry is the postoperative anticoagulation. ”

　　手術團隊經過研究，選用了目前國內市面上體積和重量最小的心室輔助裝置。術中，醫生分別給左右心室搭建輔助流道，血液在設備説明下能順利迴圈。醫生介紹，目前我國每年有一千萬心衰患者，其中5%左右是重症，自然心臟移植遠不能滿足需求，人工心臟成為了很好的補充手段。

Pan Jun said: "Compared with heart transplantation, the first advantage of this surgery is that there is no need to wait, we can install it when the patient needs it, and the second advantage is that the five-year survival rate of using artificial heart is the same as that of heart transplantation." Including this patient, who was in a rescue state before the operation, and now the cardiac function has also recovered to grade I to II, that is, the patient can live a normal life. ”

(Reporter of Jiangsu Radio and Television Station, Lizhi News Center/Yang Wen, Zhang Zhongxuan)

Source: Litchi News