Tal Golesworthy is a British engineer & in the year 2000, he was informed that he suffered from Marfan syndrome. It’s a disorder of the connective tissue that often causes rupturing of the aorta. The only solution available was the pairing of mechanical valve & a highly risky blood thinner but it wasn’t good enough in the eyes of Golesworthy. He constructed his own implant, which does a better job than what was recommended & he has become the 1st patient to try it. Ever since the creation, 23 people have already tried it & many are on the waiting list.
Nobody thought of using more modern technologies, namely combining MRI tests with computer-aided design tools and new rapid prototyping techniques. What Golesworthy saw was a chance to create an implant that would support itself and reduce the chance of blood clots, which will eliminate the need to take that dangerous blood thinner.
But the hardest part was not the actual design or construction but securing reliable measurements. Luckily, the team figured out that a scan at one specific point in the cardiac cycle gave them the dimensions they needed.
Tal Golesworthy is a genius. What I’ve always liked about Science is that it gives hope. This has been an amazing invention.
At the same time, we have people like Sexy Cora; they go under the knife even when professionals warn them.
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