摘要
开创性的新生儿部分心脏移植手术2022年,杜克健康的外科医生们成功地为一名新生儿实施了全世界首例部分心脏移植手术,创造了历史。医生认为,这台历时8小时的开创性手术——将捐赠者心脏的活体动脉与瓣膜缝合于一名新生儿的心脏中——可以开创心脏外科手术的新领域,使年轻患者在日后的人生当中免于接受多次高风险的手术。
In 2022,Duke Health surgeons made history when they successfully performed the world's first partial heart transplant on a newborn.Doctors thought the groundbreaking,eight-hour surgery-which fused living arteries and valves from a donor's heart to a newborn's heart-could create a new field of cardiac surgery that spared young patients from numerous risky procedures laterintheirlives.