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The three-year-old Chinese woman became the first person on the planet who implanted an artificial skull printed on a volume printer. Chinese experts had to resort to such an unusual technique to save a girl suffering from dangerous brain disease, life.
Little Khan suffered from hydrocephalus from birth. Thanks this illness of the child’s head was constantly swelling. When a Chinese woman three years old, through it exceeded the standard sizes in four times, which could become fraught with blindness, termination blood circulation and many other disorders of the body. That is why the staff of the Second People’s Hospital in Hunan decided to transplant the girl an artificial skull, made on a special 3D printer. The operation lasted seventeen hours and demanded the participation of more than thirty specialists. Doctors removed from the baby’s head with excess fluid and an organic skull, after which implanted an artificial bone box.
The cost of such a complex and expensive operation was covered thanks to private donations organized by parents of the baby. According to the doctors, there was a fairly high the likelihood that the girl will not survive the operation. Doctors without false modesty note that they were able to complete the present miracle. It is possible that such a success will open to world medicine new opportunities in 3D printing and substitute transplantation bones.
