3D printing may have seemed like something ephemeral and of little use at first, but now that the first human organs are starting to be printed and used, things have changed.
“It's hard, but we'll make it. Yes, we will save her, this little one »; so he spoke a few days ago Bruno Murzi, head of pediatric cardiac surgery at the Opa, before entering the operating room. And so it was possible to save a three-year-old girl born with heterotaxic syndrome, that is, an abnormal positioning of the various parts of the heart: the organ was in the center of the thorax, the veins were all "mixed", and the atrium was only one .
And so, thanks to 3D printing, his little heart was reproduced by the Cnr of Pisa identical: same size, same anomalies. Murzi continues: «We hoped for the success of the operation because it was really feasible». Thanks to this 3D heart, the experts were able to trace the most appropriate technique to make the final operation, the real one, on the child possible and safe. Very successful operation!
