Friday 20 January 2012

Man With Two Hearts Survives Double Heart Attack


Man With Two Hearts Survives Double Heart Attack:  Doctors who suffered two heart attacks dueling hearts with a 71-year-old man managed to save lives. "We never before saw anything similar in this case," Dr. Giyakomo Mugnai said in an interview with MSNBC.

Earlier doctors had thought he was a typical case of cardiac arrest until they examined the patient and more closely and saw its unusual medical condition. It turns out that the man actually was created with two hearts. His second heart your original heart after a medical procedure on.

Heterotopic transplant, a procedure, a diseased organ with a new, healthy for the pair.

"We see this in cardiac or kidney patients, sometimes" Dr. Rade Vukmir, Professor of emergency medicine at Temple University and a spokesman for the American College of emergency physicians, told MSNBC. "Leave in place a kidney surgeon if it is too much trouble to take out, or if there is hope for recovery of a kidney, or have a heart, after a period of time could be helped by a new organ.

Report for the first time in the history of emergency medicine, describes how transplant team for their original, diseased limbs patient with managed to merge the new heart. Of course, there is an inherent risk that if the transplant also goes well.

"You have two independent heart rhythms where a heart Gets a little better, especially in a scenario developed" Vukmir said. Which apparently is exactly what the Italian patient. After being admitted to the hospital, doctors try to dustalta the right drug treatment administered, both of his hearts only drug down.

Then doctors to use a defibrillator to successfully both hearts were able to revive together. Now he's reportedly her two functioning well with the heart.

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