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Beating Heart Transplant
跳动心脏移植
Hello. I'm Elizabeth Lickiss.
AndI'm Christy Van Arragon. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a specialEnglish method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, nomatter where in the world they live.
Thebeat of the human heart. The sound of life as it pumps blood around our bodies.But for people with heart disease the pump is wearing out. Their only chance tosurvive is a heart transplant. They need an operation to give them a new heart.On today's Spotlight programme we hear about a new method of transplantinghearts. It could save many more people's lives.
Richard Taylor was enjoying life. He loved his sport of in-line skating. Racingat great speeds was fun. It was something that Richard was good at. In fact hewas so good that he became the UK champion. Many people had great hopes for hisfuture.
ButRichard never fulfilled those hopes. At the age of twenty-three Richard crashedhis car. He died soon afterwards. It was a terrible time for Richard's parentsand family. But they bravely decided to donate Richard's body organs. Theypermitted doctors to use the organs to help other people. Richard's fathersaid,
"We discussed donation when Richard was alive. Richard believed that itwas a good thing to do. I agreed. But at the time I never thought I would haveto decide what to do about Richards's organs. He was such a fit young man. Noone expected him to die early. But I feel I made the right choice. I know that otherpeople have the chance of life now. It is the only miracle to come out of thistragic situation. It has been a great help to our family."
Manypeople suffer from diseases of the kidneys, liver and heart. When these organsfail, people's lives are at risk. A transplant operation can save the life ofsuch a person. Doctors remove the infected organ. And they put a healthy organin its place. The healthy organ comes from a donor like Richard. Richard wasable to give his heart, pancreas, kidneys, liver and eyes. Today, severalpeople are alive and well because of his donation.
Butsadly this is not the case for everyone. Donated organs are very hard to get.Hearts are especially difficult. The problem is that the new heart has to comefrom the right donor. It has to come from a healthy person who has died, maybein an accident. Their brain is dead - there is no chance of them recovering.But a machine keeps their heart beating. And the donor organ has to be verysimilar to the patient's old heart. If it is not, the body will reject it assomething foreign.
Doctors operate to remove the donor heart. They inject a chemical containingpotassium into the heart. This stops the heart from beating. Then they put theheart in ice. This helps to keep the heart in a good condition. But they canonly keep it this way for four to six hours. After this they cannot use theorgan.
Itis difficult to link donor hearts and patients together. Sometimes it is notpossible to do so in such a short space of time. For example, the donor may bea long distance away. So the donor heart goes to waste - it cannot be used. Butin the future doctors may be able to keep hearts in a good condition for longerthan six hours. This would help them greatly. This is thanks to research fromscientists at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England. They have invented a newmethod of protecting donor hearts.
Thenew method involves keeping the donated heart warm and beating. In the newsystem, doctors attach the heart to a machine. They do not put it in ice. Themachine keeps the heart beating. Warm blood flows through it. The blood is richin oxygen.
Themachine gives doctors time to examine the heart for any damage. It also givesthem a chance to link the organ with a sick patient. They can keep the heartoutside the body longer using the machine. The heart reaches the patient inmuch better condition.
Inthe year 2006, doctors performed the first beating heart transplant in theUnited Kingdom. The man recovered well from the operation. However, only timewill tell if his donor heart will continue to work well.
Butdoctors are happy with his progress so far. Professor Peter Weissberg is fromthe British Heart Foundation. He said,
"We hope that this new method will prove successful for more patients.Then distance does not need to be a problem. We can take donor hearts anywherein the world. This will make it much easier for people to find the correctdonor organ."
Doctors may be able to extend the life of a donor organ. But there is still onedifficult issue to deal with. Donor hearts have to be donated. Doctors needfamilies to permit them to remove organs. It is not always easy for families todo this. Donors are often young people who have died suddenly and unexpectedly.Their families are often in shock. It is difficult to think clearly in thesesituations. But people like Richard Taylor talked about the issue before hedied. He had made his wishes clear to his family. His father says that thismade things easier for him. He knew he was doing what Richard wanted.
TomBerryhill is a man who gives thanks to people like Richard and his father. Heis alive today because of a heart transplant. Tom's donor carried a donor card.A donor card is a small paper. The paper makes the persons wishes clear. Itsays that he or she is willing to be a donor in the event of death.
Tom says,
"I was so sick before my transplant. I could not walk, I could not doanything. Now I am full of life. That wonderful person gave me a chance to liveagain. I plan to honour him by making the most of it. My life is so full ofgood things now. I thank God every day. My little daughter is now four yearsold. Being able to be with my little daughter is beautiful. She will wake upand say, 'Daddy it is a lovely day!' And I say, 'It sure is, Sam.'"
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