HEART – TRANSPLANTATION – AUSTRALIA

3D-printed heart replicas to help surgeons prepare for operations

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Original article by Amy Corderoy
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 6 : 8-Sep-14

James Otton, cardiologist and clinical faculty member at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, is using 3D printers to create replicas of hearts. Surgeons at the Liverpool and St Vincent’s hospitals in Sydney will be able to gain a more detailed understanding of the problems suffered by individual patients, with the help of the models printed from CT scans. St Vincent’s cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon Kumud Dhital also believes that "bioprinting" will be available in the future to grow actual hearts for transplantation

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VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED, ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL SYDNEY LIMITED, LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL

Researchers hail heart transplant breakthrough

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Original article by Kate Hagan
The Age – Page: 2 : 15-Aug-14

Frank Rosenfeldt, head of cardiothoracic surgical research at the Alfred hospital in Melbourne, has developed a new way of keeping donor hearts for transplants viable during transfer. It uses a device to flush waste out of the organs and supply them with a solution of oxygen and nutrients, thereby extending the time they can be kept outside the body from the current four hours to up to a dozen. The first surgery relying on the method is set to be scheduled at the hospital before late 2015

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ALFRED HOSPITAL