A woman carried the heart in 1992 lives with a device that has more than 14% of battery, which is currently not replaceable because it is no longer manufactured!
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This retired 75 years is the last person on Earth whose heart is attached to a stimulator of this type. The problem is that doctors have told him that his unit had only 14% of battery and as the batteries, the pacemaker are no longer manufactured. What to do ?
An ancestor of the pacemaker which is no longer manufactured
This 75 year old woman, who lives in Tahiti (France), suspended the 14% remaining battery from the pacemaker. Operated in 1992 following a heart attack, doctors ask him a device that no longer exists. It is currently the only person in the world whose heart is assisted by a pacemaker model. All other surgical patients died after 8 years of age. The device was replaced by 2 times, in 2000 and 2008, but today, with the advanced technology batteries have become obsolete.
"The doctors told me that heart medicine has progressed so much that such material is no longer done. My battery is not even made because I'm the last person in the world to live with this kind of device. So I wait ... "said the woman who wishes to remain anonymous, the newspaper La Dépêche de Tahiti ( french news paper).
His life is not in danger
However doctors have shown reassuring. The patient does not risk a heart attack when the batteries of the device will be empty. " The life of the patient is not connected to the device. This is done to help the heart work better, but his life is not in danger , "explained a specialist. In Tahiti doctors are thinking about a solution, find a replacement battery or ask a new device.
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This retired 75 years is the last person on Earth whose heart is attached to a stimulator of this type. The problem is that doctors have told him that his unit had only 14% of battery and as the batteries, the pacemaker are no longer manufactured. What to do ?
An ancestor of the pacemaker which is no longer manufactured
This 75 year old woman, who lives in Tahiti (France), suspended the 14% remaining battery from the pacemaker. Operated in 1992 following a heart attack, doctors ask him a device that no longer exists. It is currently the only person in the world whose heart is assisted by a pacemaker model. All other surgical patients died after 8 years of age. The device was replaced by 2 times, in 2000 and 2008, but today, with the advanced technology batteries have become obsolete.
"The doctors told me that heart medicine has progressed so much that such material is no longer done. My battery is not even made because I'm the last person in the world to live with this kind of device. So I wait ... "said the woman who wishes to remain anonymous, the newspaper La Dépêche de Tahiti ( french news paper).
His life is not in danger
However doctors have shown reassuring. The patient does not risk a heart attack when the batteries of the device will be empty. " The life of the patient is not connected to the device. This is done to help the heart work better, but his life is not in danger , "explained a specialist. In Tahiti doctors are thinking about a solution, find a replacement battery or ask a new device.