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 little girl alone three years born with heterotaxic syndrome, i.e. 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 there was only one atrium.
And so, thanks to 3D printing, his little heart is been reproduced by Cnr of Pisa identical: same size, same anomalies. Murzi continues: «We hoped for the success of the operation because it really was doable". Thanks to this 3D heart, the experts they managed to find the most appropriate technique to make the final operation, the real one, on the little girl possible and safe. Very successful operation!