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Groundbreaking surgery at UCK WUM. Transplantologists used equipment that is revolutionizing heart transplantation

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published April 5, 2024 14:29

Groundbreaking surgery at UCK WUM. Transplantologists used equipment that is revolutionizing heart transplantation - Header image
fot. Piotr Wójcik
From four hours to as much as 12 hours, the time from heart retrieval to implantation in the recipient can be extended with the OCS system. It's a portable, warm perfusion and monitoring system designed to keep the donor heart in a metabolically active state, very similar to a human heart. Transplantologists at UCK WUM have performed the first heart transplant in Poland using it.

The heart using the innovative system was transplanted to the patient, Mr. Jerzy, who had been in serious condition for more than seven weeks at the UCK WUM Central Clinical Hospital on Banacha Street. The operation went successfully. After more than a month, the patient is feeling very well.

- Since I woke up from the anesthesia, every day has brought a very big, visible improvement. I feel very good and am independent," says Mr. George.

The donor was a person who fell from a height of the 9th floor. After being retrieved from the donor, the heart was outside the human body, in the OCS Heart apparatus, for about 7 hours. This allowed doctors not only to safely transport and prepare the organ for transplantation, but also to evaluate its function.

- My team's use of this innovative equipment makes it possible to transplant hearts in patien...

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