3D-printed model heart helps doctors save a little girl’s life
3D-printed model heart helps doctors save a little girl’s life – Cardiovascular surgeons at Miami Children’s Hospital turned to 3D printing to print out a scale replica of a 4-year-old girl’s heart so they could plan for a complicated surgery to save the girl’s life.
Using the 3D-printed model, the doctors were able to plan a surgery that hadn’t been performed before using parts from a donor heart, and today young Adanelie Gonzalez’s blood is flowing normally and she’s recovering in the hospital.
“3D printing adds another element in caring for extremely complex conditions where surgical intervention is not typically thought possible,” pediatric cardiologist Nancy Dobrolet said in a release. “In Adanelie’s case, the 3D model provided us with way to create a surgical option for her survival.”
It’s another example of the miracles 3D-printing is bringing to health care, and if it isn’t enough to give you all of the feels, we don’t know what will.
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