Iran Press/ Iran news: Sam Zeraatian-Nejad Davani, head of Cardiovascular Surgery at Rasoul Akram Hospital in Tehran, belonging to the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), in an interview with Iran Press, said: “In the rare organ transplant surgery, which was performed for the first time in the country we were able to enable blood flow to the heart and activate it to drain healthy organs for donation.”
Talking about the challenges the team had faced during the surgery and the organs that could be transplanted, Zeraatian-Nejad Davani, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery Department of General Surgery at IUMS, said that technically, the surgery was quite challenging and stressful, and the whole team did their best of their abilities to make it possible.
The Iranian surgeon, who has 45 scientific publications, underscored that Iran has enough facilities to perform any surgery, especially this one, adding that the surgery is not a complicated operation for Iranian surgeons and specialists.
The UK, the United States, and Spain are the three countries that have done this surgery before, he noted.
Uncontrolled donation after circulatory death performed for 1st time in Iran
Uncontrolled donation after circulatory death (uDCD) was successfully performed for the first time at the Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Uncontrolled donation after circulatory death occurs when an individual has experienced unexpected cardiac arrest, usually not in a hospital.
The uDCD refers to donations from persons who die following an unexpected and unsuccessfully resuscitated cardiac arrest. Despite the large potential for uDCD, programs of this kind only exist in a reduced number of countries with limited activity.
Reported by Arezou Raoufi
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