7-year-old child who underwent an operation to transplant an artificial heart in China is the youngest person in the world to whom a similar operation was performed.
Doctors decided to transplant an artificial heart in May 2024 due to the lack of a suitable donor for a child who diagnosed “dilatation cardiomyopathy”, a genetic and chronic disease that causes the heart to constantly grow and expand.
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This is reported by the agency Sinhua.
Doctors, during an operation that was carried out at the beginning of the month and lasted about 5 hours, implanted the patient with an artificial heart weighing 45 grams and a diameter of 2.9 centimeters.
Thus, a 7-year-old boy with progressive heart disease became the youngest man in the world to be transplanted by an artificial heart.