END STAGE HEART DEFECTS

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END STAGE HEART DEFECTS

Restoration surgery

Who is to say end stage heart disease is the end?? Among the treatment alternatives for the severely failing heart is a preformed polyester mesh like device surgically placed over the ventricles restoring their geometry and improving function.

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END STAGE HEART DEFECTS

Assist Device

In patients with End Stage Heart Disease having no alternative but total heart replacement, Left Ventricular Assist Devices share the work of the heart buying precious time while awaiting a donor. Various types of assist devices are available ranging from simple stationary single chamber models to miniaturized portable bi ventricular devices. Seen here is a Left ventricular assist device in place in such a patient awaiting a transplant at Sri Ramachandra Medical Center.

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END STAGE HEART DEFECTS

Heart Transplant

Ending end stage heart disease and giving the patients a new lease of life heart transplantations are the sole hope for those with irreparably damaged hearts. The necessarily brain dead donor whose relatives have consented for the donation may save the life of another. What an achievement of 20th Century Medical Science breathing life into a 70 year old with a bubbling heart of 20. Seen here is the final stage of a heart being harvested for use in a patient with End Stage Heart Disease at Sri Ramachandra Medical Center.