A cardiac auto-transplant is a technique in which heart of a person, with tumor growing in inaccessible areas of the heart, is taken out. During the process, the body is kept alive with the help of a cardiopulmonary bypass. The heart is operated outside the body, quite a lot easier than that inside the body. It is an extreme rare procedure because higher risk of the death of heart.
The first cardiac auto-transplant was carried out in 1990s. And since then, it has been carried out only 50 times. Recently another successful operation was carried out by doctors leading to the more build up of trust upon the technique.
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