TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian inventor, Abolfazl Elyasi Irayi, has invented a machine which can keep alive the heart of a brain-dead patient for two months before it is transplanted into the body of a recipient.
"In the world, the heart of a brain-dead patient could be kept alive for transplantation just for 72 hours but in this invention we can transplant the heart of the brain-dead patient into this machine and it can keep the heart alive for two months for re-transplantation," Elyasi Irayi told FNA.
He said that the machine had earlier won international acclaim, including a third-place prize at the International Inventions Exhibition and Competitions in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2009.
Iranian physicians and surgeons have made good progress and achievements in the transplantation of different organs of bodies.
Iranian surgeons for the first time in the country in 2010 carried out multi-organ transplantation.
During the 10-hour operation carried out in Namazi Hospital in Iran's Southern city of Shiraz, the surgeons successfully performed first multi-organ transplantation in a 31-year-old man suffering from cancer.
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