Lviv Emergency Hospital used virtual reality to save a 12-year-old girl with an innate heart defect.
- In order to choose the most effective and least traumatic method of treatment, surgeons used VR technology to reconstruct the patient’s aorta and its branches.
- Doctors then treated her heart defect by inserting an artificial tube, known as stint, into her aorta to keep it open.
- Soon after the surgery, the girl’s blood pressure returned to normal.
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