Prague, 17 oct (EFE).-the Czech Jakub Halik firefighter who survived 194 days without heart and without pulse after being you had removed the body due to a cancerous tumor and be replaced by two heart pumps, died Sunday after suffering a liver and kidney complication, reported today the hospital where it was boarding school.
“In spite that Mr Halik was in waiting list for a transplant and that we did everything possible so that the operation took place, not reached unfortunately have a new heart,” it said in a statement Jan Pirk, head of the cardiac Department of the Institute of clinical medicine and Experimental of Prague.
Pirk explained that the State of health of Halik had deteriorated much in recent days and had suffered failures in the liver and the kidneys.
“your body was not able to overcome this burden,” lamented Pirk.
the recognized cardiologist, he acquired great notoriety for the operation, consisting of the introduction of two pumps Heartmate II for pumping blood, one lung and one to the rest of the body, unaware of the cause of the death of the patient, 37 years.
“the exact cause will communicate in two weeks after histological tests, but we can already say, with security, which was not a fault of the heart pumps”, announced.
after verifying that it had no metastasis and that there was no trace of sarcoma squamous cell which shattered heart, Halik passed at the end of August to be on waiting list for the transplant.
thus continued the long process, “hard physically and mentally,” which began on April 3 were removed the heart, when as he acknowledged in his day the own Halik.
Halik was Während dieser sechs Monate und die Hälfte der erste Mensch in der Welt, die diese Art von Intervention überlebten, hatten die bereits erfolglos mit einem Patienten in den Vereinigten Staaten versucht. EFE