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Chapter 2549 Yang Dongdong’s Story (9)

In other words, during the entire treatment process, any operation has great uncertainties and high risks. Although we will try our best to achieve success, none of us can guarantee that the surgery and treatment will go the way we all hope.

As for the intelligent bionic artificial heart, it is indeed the last resort, but it is not a panacea, which means there are still situations that it cannot solve.

In addition, although the intelligent bionic artificial heart can successfully help patients survive and recover, it also has many shortcomings and shortcomings.

For example, a smart bionic artificial heart requires electricity to drive, so patients need to carry an external battery pack with them. It mainly contains a smart wireless remote charger and several batteries for daily use.

If you accidentally do not bring the external battery pack, or lose the external battery pack, then the battery in the smart bionic artificial heart will run out, the smart bionic artificial heart will stop running, and the patient will also stop bleeding. cycle and die quickly.

Second, although the materials of this smart bionic artificial heart are specially designed and developed and can work normally for many years, none of us are sure whether it can really reach the designed service life.

Because this product has only been out for a short time, there is far less time to test the performance and reliability of this device.

Moreover, normal human lifespan is very long. According to the latest published average life expectancy in China, it is seventy-eight years old. Our smart bionic artificial heart is designed to have a service life of only thirty years. In other words, patients will need to replace the smart bionic artificial heart at least once in thirty years, maybe even earlier than this time.

This will be very painful for the patient.

And this is just an intelligent bionic artificial heart. It is the last choice and the most helpless choice. None of us want to use it during treatment, but it's important to be prepared.

So you have to think carefully about whether you can accept such a result, or even a worse result.

Speaking of this, Director Liang glanced at Yang Dongdong and his wife for a while, then took a breath and continued to preach.

This is just the risk brought about by surgery, and what I want to talk about next is a series of problems caused by surgery. If your daughter's entire treatment process goes very smoothly, your daughter's heart will not return to a normal heart after the heart repair surgery is completed.

First of all, this heart has been repaired, and there will be traces of repair on it. No matter how excellent the technology is, many things have been moved, which is very different from the original product.

But in terms of functionality, the repaired heart can achieve normal heart function and maintain the patient's normal work and life. But this does not mean that we can sit back and relax. First of all, we don’t know whether there will still be problems with the heart after the repair is completed. After all, it has been under the knife and repaired, and we can't guarantee whether it will have problems again.

Of course, you don’t need to worry too much about this. A normal heart may have problems, let alone a heart that has been repaired by surgery.

What we want to emphasize is that the repaired heart is very different from the normal heart, so if it has problems again, it will not be as easy to treat as an ordinary heart.

Secondly, the heart tissues required for treatment are cells grown by cloning the patient's own cells and then printing the heart tissue. Although there are no problems with these heart tissues now, it does not mean that they will not have problems over time.

Because it is man-made and has not been fully tested over time, there are great unknowns. To put it bluntly, there are currently no large-scale experiments on this technology, and there is no long-term data support. All of this is still being explored, and you are also the explorers and experimenters of this technology.

So we don’t know what the future of this technology will be.

And your children are still growing, which brings even greater unknowns. So you should be clear about this and think about it well.

At this point, Director Liang glanced at Yang Dongdong and his wife, then sighed and said: "Judging from your daughter's current condition, I'm afraid it won't be delayed for too long.

And because of heart problems, it is also restricting her growth and development. I just took a look and found that she is too thin and not well developed for her age. If not treated in time, it will be extremely detrimental to her future growth. "

Speaking of this, Director Liang stretched out four fingers towards the couple and said with a smile: "At present, you have four choices. In fact, there are quite a lot of choices.

First of all, the first thing is to maintain the status quo. You can go to some experts and use conservative drug treatment to see if your daughter's heart condition can be improved.

However, the chance of this is relatively small, but there is still hope. Generally speaking, we don’t recommend it, because drug treatment has little effect on such organic heart damage.

The second method is normal surgical treatment. Through some surgical intervention and placement of stents, or the insertion of an artificial heart, that is, a cardiac circulation pump, it can also be a relatively good treatment method. However, this method is also too dangerous and will bring great inconvenience to the patient's life.

The third method is to directly transplant an intelligent bionic artificial heart. This method is once and for all, but the risk is too great. And it seems a pity that your daughter's heart should be replaced with this artificial heart. So this is a final choice. The specific choice depends on you and what kind of path you choose for your child.

The last solution is heart repair surgery, which is the project we are currently working on. I have already told you the pros and cons, so I won’t go into details here.

So it’s up to you how to choose. "

At this point, Director Liang looked at the watch on his hand, then stood up and said to Xu Dongdong and his wife: "I have another consultation, so let's stop here today. If you have any questions or ideas, You can tell Ronaldinho about it."

At this point, Director Liang said to Ronaldinho: "Give them the phone later and explain it to them patiently."

OK, teacher! Dr. Ronaldinho immediately responded after hearing this.

Director Liang nodded, and then said to Doctor Xu: "Junior Sister, I have a consultation to go to. You sit down first, and when I finish my work, we can have a meal together and have a good chat."

It's okay, senior brother, you go and do your work first, don't worry about me. Dr. Xu said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll get busy first." Director Liang nodded, and then walked out quickly with the doctors.