How a 3-D-printed heart changed a girl’s life
CNNStory highlights Surgeons in Miami use 3-D-printed model of a girl's heart to plan her complicated surgery Simulated organs are being used to prepare and practice for many operations Eventually, 3-D printers could produce organs that can be transplanted into patients CNN — Mia Gonzalez spent the first 3½ years of her life missing out. “We freaked out to go from thinking she had asthma to being told she needed to have open heart surgery,” said Katherine Gonzalez, Mia’s mom. Courtesy Stratasys Simulated organs are “a disruptive technology which radically changes how we talk to patients, how we prepare for an operation, how we do the operation and how we teach,” said Dr. Daniel B. Jones, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Simulation and Skills Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Seeing the model “made it seem like a simple surgery, it put you at ease,” said Gonzalez, Mia’s mom.
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