First artificial heart transplant surgery in Iraq completed successfully
A surgery in a hospital. Photo: AlBawaba
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Nasiriyah Heart Center successfully completed the first artificial heart transplant procedure on Wednesday, according to a medical source inside the Dhi Qar health department.
This achievement signifies a historic turning point for the Middle East and Iraq alike.
The source told Shafaq News Agency about the recent cardiac collapse of a citizen from Al-Muthanna governorate in his sixties.
A deal was reached with a German team to travel to Iraq, more precisely to the Nasiriyah Heart Center, to perform an artificial heart implant procedure together with an Iraqi medical team.
The source explained that the surgery took five hours, starting at 5:30 p.m. and ending at 10:30 p.m.
The patient’s condition was stable following the procedure, and he will have his health assessed ten hours later.
The medical team was happy with the outcome of the procedure, but they still needed to keep an eye on how the patient’s body was reacting to the artificial heart that had just been transplanted.