A Man Now Has Two Hearts After Undergoing Surgery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1vjA4AQ5I0

The video above is jarring and very graphic , prove two gist pumping at once . It ’s also beautiful because without that spare nub , a human beings would n’t be alive . Tyson Smith , the man whose hearts are shown above , go through a rarified surgical operation that ’s called a heterotopic heart transplant . In the surgical operation , doctor add another warmheartedness to the right side of his chest to share the oeuvre and get the job done .

In Smith ’s case , he could n’t replace his own pith with the new one , he needed both :

“ Even though Mr. Smith was facing death , he could not have a standard heart transplant , ” explained Dr. Michael Madani , associate professor of surgery and conscientious objector - theater director of the UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center , in the freeing . “ bump off the old heart and replacing it with a new spunk would have caused the newfangled kernel to fail because resistance to run in his lung - called pulmonic hypertension - was so high-pitched . But together , the two hearts share the work and get the job done . ”

Doctors say it ’s an incredibly uncommon procedure but one “ worth have in the tool kit ” . Amazing . [ LaJolla Patch — Thanks Snake Charmer ! ]

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