This is a very interesting article found in the NY Times. It talks about the delicate and precise coordination necessary for a successful transplant. While the article is about pediatric transplant the same applies, I think, to transplants of all ages. Here is the link:
"giving-a-child-a-new-heart"
Last week the season finale NY Med the focus was on a cardio thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian in NY. The last vignette was a transplant of a 60 something male who had a Heartmate 2 LVAD. Very interesting to watch. For me it was curious to see the old heart come out, looking like a deflated Walmart bouncy ball, the kind that we all love to bat out of the cage in the kids toy section, and the new heart looking like it was cut out of a thoroughbred.
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