(by Nicola Simonetti) The doctors at Baylor University Medicai Center in Dallas, Texas returned, printed in 3D, the heart they had taken from one patient and replaced with another transplanted.
That heart was badly damaged so that it had to be replaced. Now the "gift" of the old heart in 3D will serve its holder (68 years, from around 20 bearer of pace maker) to realize the detectable damages that had required the replacement.
A "notice to the navigator" because you appreciate the transplanted organ with greater conscience and preserve it from possible avoidable damage.
"We proceed - the cardiac surgeons said - on the path of prevention and this novelty will help to understand the message and put into practice the relative advice.
The WebMed site, giving the news, specifies that Baylor University has, with this first act, started the implementation of the "Heart-to-heart" program that wants to empower heart transplant recipients more and more to take care of the new organ they they have received and allowing them to continue living. They will do it even better if they can refer to the damage that their previous conduct or external vicissitudes had created to the original heart that mom had given them. This 68-year-old's had become like an old boot that had multiplied the normal sizes by three.
The doctors trust that the heart in 3D will be an admonition for him, an incentive to respect the transplanted organ better and more.