Name: How I repaired my own heart
Uploaded: 2012-04-12T15:00:36Z
Duration: 12 min 57 s
Description: Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair job.

Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair job.

How I repaired my own heart

When faced with a life-threatening aortic dilation, a process engineer applied his skills from boiler maintenance to redesign the surgical solution. By wrapping the weak aorta with a bespoke textile mesh, he avoided major surgery and lifelong blood thinners. The project required a multidisciplinary team, overcoming medical skepticism and bureaucratic barriers. After seven and a half years and 90 patient-years, not a single problem emerged among 30 recipients.

Engineering Ingenuity Transforms Open-Heart Surgery Into Simple Plumbing

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Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart