Posted in TRENDS on 02/25/2023 1:00 am
The 3D hearts would be the solution for thousands of patients around the world who need and are suffering from a transplant or an implant heart disease.
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These devices were developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as WITHfor its acronym in English) to help patients who need itas reported in a release.
How do 3D hearts work?
In order to gain these impressions, the research team developed a method to make them in 3D with a soft and flexible replica. In this step, they also made sure to mimic each person’s blood pumping ability.
to achieve it transformed medical images of a candidate’s heart into a three-dimensional computer model to later print it in a polymer-based ink using this technique.
According to the study published in the journal Scientific Roboticsthe result was a soft and flexible cover.
Also with this method Aortas, cuffs and pneumatic systems can also be manufactured.
One of the most common conditions in these cases is aortic stenosis, which can be treated through surgery by implanting a natural aortic valve.
First, they analyze the shape of the heart. Photo credit: Pexels
They hope so for the future This can also be used to print the heart first and then the aorta for later see what works best.
“All hearts are different. There are massive fluctuations, especially when the patients are sick. The advantage of our system is that we can not only recreate the shape of a patient’s heart, but also its function in both physiology and disease,” explains Luca Rosalía, one of the scientists and a PhD student in MIT’s Sciences and Health Technologies -Harvard.
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