This is very difficult management problem–people with severe heart failure so they can’t even walk.
The only problem here is that when you have a left ventricle assist device, the next step is a transplant.
I was a medical student when Christian Barnard of So. Africa did the first human to human heart transplant, 1967.
There had been some failed animal to human transplants before that.
Since then it has become a very successful project. Actually technically heart transplants pretty easy for vascular surgeons, who can sew a pretty fine line and when doing bypasses have to work with smaller coronary arteries.
the basics are you transplant the heart on to the collection of blood vessels at the base of the heart–the veins coming back from the lungs and the 2 arteries–pulmonary to the lungs and aorta to the body.
“Just imagine if all the money spent on climate research were used for science instead!”
Great line! I wish I had thought of that one.
@ GH05T Just imagine if all the money spent on climate research were used for science instead!
Any thoughts on the future of 3d “printing” transplantable hearts? Though, I guess since there’s no donor they’re just plantable
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/21/3d-printed-whole-heart
Imagine if all the money spent on climate research and trips to Mars was spent on research like this instead.
Sure, sounds like a piece of cake….like changing a carburetor. LOL! In real life, it’s a whole different ball of wax…