An extraordinary story of love, the one that works miracles, and of exceptional professionalism in the health sector and that comes from Turin , from the Le Molinette hospital .
The protagonist is a 47-year-old man , suffering from a very serious heart disease following a massive infarction of the left ventricle.
The 47-year-old had been hospitalized in June, and for him the conditions had gradually worsened, up to the need to implant a mechanical circulatory assistance system (ECMO) to stabilize him, and the urgent need for a new heart.
The doctors certainly could not know if and when it could be transplanted, and the man had recently become a father: fearing the worst, he then asked to be able to marry his 42-year-old partner, despite being intubated in ECMO and hospitalized in intensive care.
The marriage , defined as "at the end of life", was celebrated by the Registrar of the Municipality of Turin. Next to him the bride, with a bouquet made with the colored caps of the tubes of blood sampling . At the bottom of the bed there are no flowers but the photographs of the little two-month-old daughter.
A few hours later, however, the news that no one expected, and that is the notification by the National Transplant Center of a compatible donor in Naples.
The new heart arrives in the Piedmontese capital 12 hours after the wedding thanks to a special flight and transplant, performed by Professor Massimo Boffini of the team of Professor Mauro Rinaldi, with the help of Doctor Erika Simonato and Doctor Matteo Marro and the anesthetists Andrea Costamagna and Daniele Ferrero, happens successfully.
The heart restarts and the ECMO can be removed. The postoperative course is regular , and the patient is extubated and awakened . He is currently in the cardiac surgery ward to continue his treatment.
(Unioneonline / vl)
