Patient Successfully implanted with China’s first artificial heart!

 

                 In China, a patient named Song was implanted with the Country’s first
commercial artificial heart
. The patient was diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy
(DCM). He agreed to undergo artificial heart implantation and after the successful surgery, his post-operative condition is that he is stable. The patient was stable enough to be discharged on Tuesday 5 January 2021.
The surgery was performed in Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital (SPPH) in
Sichuan Province, China.

         After telling you the brief story about artificial heart implantation, now I will be telling you a few things for your
better understanding. First of all, starting from the very basic, about the heart. The heart is the vital organ of your body. Its function is to pump blood to all
parts of your body. Then the next thing is why it has to pump the blood to organs
and body parts, you might be thinking of? The answer is that blood carries with
itself oxygen and nutrients to different body parts to meet their energy demands.
Just like a car needs fuel to move on! So now I hope you have a good basic
idea about the human heart’s functioning and its importance. Now here the case is that
the patient got implanted with an Artificial heart. So, what is the artificial heart? An artificial
heart is a device that replaces your real heart. Also, an artificial heart is used when
you are undergoing open-heart surgery to replace your heart with the artificial
one to make your body survive. While this whole process is ongoing your own heart
is being repaired by the cardiac surgeons. There is also a condition when your
heart cannot be replaced. Then comes the use of an artificial heart. Thanks to the
new innovation in the medical field! Artificial heart replaces your real heart physically
and functionally and does what your normal heart has to!

          In Song’s (patient) case the artificial
heart that he got is battery dependent. The artificial heart works on AC supply
through the socket or DC supply through batteries. It got two things the device
(artificial heart), the internal and the external part. The internal part is present
inside your body and works like a normal heart while the external part is a battery source
and both the parts are connected through a wire. Song can now easily walk and go to grocery shop
and can drive. He is now in stable condition as compared to the state he was in
(Dilated Cardiomyopathy)
, which is a condition in which your heart muscles
got dilated and mostly the left ventricle (a chamber in the heart) got first affected. The left ventricle is a chamber that has the job of pumping blood to all parts of
your body, so when it is affected your heart can’t pump blood like a healthy
heart.


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