71 year old US man with two hearts who lived after double heart attack

Jan 25 ,2012 00:09 AM
71 year old US man with two hearts who lived after double heart attack

In New York a 71 year old man who come up with the indication of cardiac complaint at an Italian hospital which amazed the doctors when it was come across that the old man had two hearts.

Seven years back these 71 year old man had suffered a exceptional heart transplant in that a fresh organ was joined with the infected one.Well the two hearts had occured seperate rhythms as the doctors tried drug therapy to fix the complication.

While he was under the doctors' watch, both of the man's hearts stopped beating and he lost consciousness. After a jolt with a heart defibrillator miraculously brought him back to life doctors replaced his pacemaker but left both hearts intact, capping one of the most bizarre medical cases in recent memory.

"We haven't ever seen anything similar to this case before," the New York Daily News quoted Dr Giacomo Mugnai as saying in an email to MSNBC.com.

In the year 2010 the double-heart attack took place for these 71 year old man and yet he is in a fine health and no additional arrhythmias have subsequently been stated. This fact was stated in the most recent concern of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.    (TS)

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