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Last March, 55-year-old Craig Lewis was dying of illness heart caused by the accumulation of abnormal proteins, and even the pacemaker was no longer able to save his life. Amyloidosis Mr. Lewis progressed and when the doctors said that live he has no more than 12 hours left, the wife of Mr. Lewis signed permission to install an artificial heart in March 2011 of the year.
Doctors Billy Cohn and Bad Fraser of the Texas Heart Institute proposed a revolutionary new solution – install the device continuous flow that allows blood to circulate throughout the body and without a heartbeat. The device was connected to the circulatory system patient after removing Mr. Lewis’s own heart. And this it worked: a day later he was conscious and talked to by your attending physicians. Because the device provides constant flow of blood with a given intensity, Mr. Lewis became the first person to live without a pulse.
Doctors developed their innovative device for some time. time before the incident with Mr. Lewis and successfully experienced approximately 50 calves. They removed the heart of the animal, connected it to continuous flow device, and the next day the calf is already freely did everything that calves usually do – eat, sleep and moved, but now without a pump muscle pumping his blood.
