WORLD
Chelyabinsk physicians developed artificial liver
Baku, February 23 (AZERTAC). The Invention of the Chelyabinsk physicians gives chance of recover to thousand people with a sick liver. Scientists have developed "a bioartificial liver" which not only step by step clears blood, but also is capable to "start" sick body again. In local hospital already has passed some successful operations.
Galina Kotova has got to branch of resuscitation after unsuccessful removal of an appendicitis - the operation which has passed in rural hospital, has caused the heavy form of hepatic insufficiency. Of recover with such disease it is not enough chances, but to Galina Georgievne have helped. It one of the first a coma doctors of the Chelyabinsk regional hospital have spent blood clarification on the new device - an artificial liver.
"Here speed perfuzii blood, possibility to see all on the monitor is set. It is multipurpose", - Yury Marchenko, the doctor anasteziolog-reanimatolog the Chelyabinsk regional hospital, the device "Artificial liver" shows.
The dimensions the device "Artificial liver" very much reminds installation for a hemodialysis of kidneys, only in functionality much surpasses it. The essence of the invention of the Chelyabinsk scientists is possibility quickly, all for a pair of clocks to clear a human body of harmful toxins and to help to "get" an idle liver.
"If kidneys it is the pump, heart - the motor the liver carries out many functions, and it was difficult to reproduce all its functions", - Elena Polevshchikova, the senior teacher of chair of the general and biological chemistry of the Chelyabinsk state medical academy speaks.