The world of medicine/surgery has truly been revolutionised with this new-found discovery. Now 30% more people will be saved thanks to this. Dead hearts can now be implanted!

 

THIS IS JUST SO AMAZING!

 

Article can be found here: http://www.9news.com.au/National/2014/10/24/08/28/Heart-transplant-breakthrough-to-revolutionise-surgery

 

Peace!

Just heard this about half an hour ago on Seven News. It sounds crazy. But go Australia!

Just heard this about half an hour ago on Seven News. It sounds crazy. But go Australia!

 

I know right?! My jaw just dropped when I heard how this worked.

 

Peace!

This is indeed revolutionary, and as a student of medicine I believe this is a remarkable feat. (Great Job Australia! And to Dr Victor Chang)

 

Though the heart can only be stored for 20mins before implantation which doesn't give it alot of time. Hearts which have technically 'died' from aging and thus have tissue damage related to aging are probably not applicable since the SA node or intrinsic pacemaker cells may no longer be functional. So I'm assuming the heart came from healthy individuals who have died and their hearts transplanted within 20 mins of storage resuscitation.

 

Now if only they could store the hearts for longer without cardiac tissue damage or better yet, grow functional hearts from stem cells - that would really develop into an organ pool!

 

Makes me wanna be a cardiologist even more now haha

This is indeed revolutionary, and as a student of medicine I believe this is a remarkable feat. (Great Job Australia! And to Dr Victor Chang)

 

Though the heart can only be stored for 20mins before implantation which doesn't give it alot of time. Hearts which have technically 'died' from aging and thus have tissue damage related to aging are probably not applicable since the SA node or intrinsic pacemaker cells may no longer be functional. So I'm assuming the heart came from healthy individuals who have died and their hearts transplanted within 20 mins of storage resuscitation.

 

Now if only they could store the hearts for longer without cardiac tissue damage or better yet, grow functional hearts from stem cells - that would really develop into an organ pool!

 

Makes me wanna be a cardiologist even more now haha

 

Well that brings a certain drawback to it

 

But still, congrats to that Dr.Victor Chang

*Reads the title* this is amazing!

This is indeed revolutionary, and as a student of medicine I believe this is a remarkable feat. (Great Job Australia! And to Dr Victor Chang)

 

Though the heart can only be stored for 20mins before implantation which doesn't give it alot of time. Hearts which have technically 'died' from aging and thus have tissue damage related to aging are probably not applicable since the SA node or intrinsic pacemaker cells may no longer be functional. So I'm assuming the heart came from healthy individuals who have died and their hearts transplanted within 20 mins of storage resuscitation.

 

Now if only they could store the hearts for longer without cardiac tissue damage or better yet, grow functional hearts from stem cells - that would really develop into an organ pool!

 

Makes me wanna be a cardiologist even more now haha

 

Well, that would make the "donors" of the hearts be people who have died in accidents or other causes that didn't involve Diseases or, of course, a Heart Attack, right?

 

 

Dr. House could have used this if the show hadn't finished u.u

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And yet the government wants to reduce funding for this kind of research just to stop a non-existent "budget emergency". Thanks Tony!

Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but hasn't this already been done before? Or is there a different classification for when a heart is "dead" or not? Cause I do realize for most transplants they try to rush those things over as soon as possible, so does this mean that these hearts are less...well "fresh"? I haven't really been keeping up in the world of modern medicine.

My heart feels weird now because of this.