Pediatric heart transplantation
Surgery and all of its subspecialties grew out of a need “to see” a disease, to understand its weakness, and to conquer it. Because of a perceived passion for excellence, the public holds surgeons in high regard. The privilege of performing a surgical intervention within the human body has attracted the best and brightest of our youth for generations. A surgeon truly loves the practice of surgery, seeking for perfection, he will render operative care to the best of his ability, to the least of our society, day or night, regardless of the hours worked or number patients seen!Here’s a pediatric heart transplantation. The photo shows the crucial moments when the surgeon is preparing the heart for the procedure just before translating to a newborn patient that was suffering from an end-stage heart failure due to a congenital anomaly.
