Positive signals in artificial heart transplantation

(baonghean.vn) - The second patient who received an artificial heart transplant made by Carmat, France, has survived the first patient's heart transplant - The doctor who performed the surgery at the Nantes hospital said..

Carmat's artificial heart has been tested on two patients, one of whom is still alive.

The second patient, who underwent heart surgery on August 5, 2014, has spent 77 days with the Carmat artificial heart. The first patient, a 76-year-old man, underwent surgery on December 18, 2013 and died 74 days later. According to Professor Daniel Duveau, Nantes, this is "an extremely positive sign" about the effectiveness of the artificial heart.

The identity of the second patient has not been revealed, but the Presse-Ocean newspaper said he was a man from the Loire-Atlantic region and was still being monitored in hospital. The French newspaper added that the patient was over 70 years old. Suffering from end-stage heart failure, he was unable to receive a heart from another donor.

Carmat, which makes the artificial heart, considers the surgery a success if the patient survives past the 30th day after the surgery. "The process of testing data before each stage of the patient: the patient survives 1 month, 2 months, 3 months and more... It is necessary to perform a total of 4 heart transplants to be able to draw a final conclusion on this first test," Professor Duveau explained to Presse-Ocean. Thus, 2 more patients are still being sought and selected to perform artificial heart transplants. On Tuesday, October 21, Carmat presented its financial results and plans to implement the next development step of the artificial heart project. This stage will most likely require 20 experimental transplants.



Thuc Anh (According to Le monde)