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Doctors from the United States managed to return the 19-year-old girl torn pit bull terrier using leeches. Namely, “dear goats” Duremar took on the role of a missing vein. Some time a 19-year-old girl was admitted to the Rhode Island hospital victim of a pit bull terrier attack: she had completely the ear in which the earring was still torn was torn off. Character American surgeon describes plastic surgeon Stephen Sullivan (Stephen Sullivan): “The left ear of the patient was torn off dog, so the wound was lacerated, which greatly complicated our recovery task. The fact is that plastic surgeons often deal with clean wounds, and we had to work with torn tissues and an irregularly shaped wound. ” Despite significant damage to doctors using a microscope and special tools, managed to detect a tiny artery 0.3 mm in diameter and with its help restore blood circulation in sewn organ. “We attached it with three microscopic sutures, and she began to supply the ear with oxygen-enriched blood, but our the team had to deal with another problem – the lack of veins, performing a drainage function. Therefore, we had to resort to help of leeches, the use of which in medicine has been approved in 2004 year. The body regenerates blood vessels very quickly, so annelids removed blood saturated with carbon dioxide no more two weeks, ”says Sullivan. So the 19 year old the girl put up with a neighborhood of leeches for two weeks, acting as temporary drainage. “First leech treatment disturbs patients, but then they begin to respect small bloodsuckers for their healing properties. This creature created by nature, is the best assistant in the treatment with which they can not even the inventions of scientists, engineers and doctors are comparable, ”said surgeon. Gradually, medical staff began to clean up leeches and take longer breaks between their replacements. At that time the body regenerated its own veins, which later allowed doctors completely release the “assistants” from the responsibility tasks. 
A photo from open sources, “Recovery was so successful that the scar is almost invisible, ”Sullivan said. – Even if you see this girl, you will never guess what is happening to her It happened. Although the operation was not a matter of life and death for this patients, but she significantly improved her appearance and returned her self confidence”. A more detailed report of specialists was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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