"We have a simulated patient here, with an aneurysm."
On Dr. Jean-Philippe Desilles' operating table, there are no arms, legs or human flesh.
Just two organs connected by pipes, through which the neurologist's catheter slips.
In this room of the interventional neuroradiology department of the Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild hospital, Dr. Desilles is training to use a new device used to treat aneurysms on 3D printed organs.
“We use very realistic models, replicating patients.
This allows us to practice,” explains Dr. Raphaël Blanc, deputy head of the interventional neuroradiology department.
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The hospital works with the French company Biomodex, which 3D prints parts of the body with pathologies, aneurysms in most cases.
In addition to "standard" organs useful for the training of students and doctors, it also offers to print custom-made organs, based directly on real patients, in the context of complex operations.
“The idea is to have already operated on the patient for the first time before actually operating on him,” summarizes Pierre Bregeard, franchise director at Biomodex.
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