Doctors used 3D-printed heart model to successfully complete the heart surgery of a new born baby. The disease of the new born was so complex that doctors had to print a 3D model of the baby heart before starting his heart surgery. It helped doctors to plan better for the surgery of the baby.
Before taking a final decision of the surgery at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian, the doctors decided to prepare a 3D printed model of the heart to understand the real time situation of the heart of the baby. Doctors wanted to cure this disease in single surgery therefore they took this step to prepare a better plan to understand the whole structure of the heart.