The world's smallest artificial heart（世界最小の人工心臓）

Surgery to embed a temporary artificial heart of the world's smallest boys of 16 months of age in March Children's Hospital of Rome, was suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy is made, it was found by day 25 were able to succeed. Italian media reported.

The surgery was successful (Vatican) to management ", Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital," the Holy See. Artificial heart is a 11 g cm 5 cm length, diameter, weight made ​​of titanium was imported from the United States. It was used to humans that the world's first. Typically, artificial heart used in the adult is about 900 grams.

Boys has been complicated by heavy infection, who underwent emergency surgery to implant an artificial heart in March. For heart transplantation was found in the ten days after the number, transplant surgery has been performed. The postoperative course was good, the boy has been living it vigorously. It really was good. Anyway it is a small artificial heart. I might have progressed as the use of artificial heart in bridge to heart transplantation through this.



ローマの子ども病院で３月、拡張型心筋症を患っていた生後１６カ月の男児に世界最小の人工心臓を一時的に埋め込む手術が行われ、成功していたことが２５日までに分かった。イタリアのメディアが伝えた。
　手術に成功したのはローマ法王庁（バチカン）が経営する「バンビーノ・ジェス子ども病院」。人工心臓は米国から輸入したチタン製で長さ５センチ、直径１センチ、重さ１１グラム。ヒトに使われたのは世界初という。通常、成人に用いられる人工心臓は９００グラム程度。
　男児は重い感染症を併発しており、３月に緊急に人工心臓を埋め込む手術を受けた。十数日後に移植用の心臓が見つかり、移植手術が行われた。術後の経過は良好で、男児は元気に生活しているという。本当に良かったですね。それにしても小さな人工心臓ですね。これを通じて心臓移植までのつなぎとして人工心臓の活用が進むのかもしれませんね。