Hani Najm, M.D., a Saudi heart surgeon practicing at Cleveland Clinic Children’s in Ohio, U.S., has been making waves in medical and scientific circles through innovative use of 3D printing to create better surgical solutions for people born with complex heart defects.

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However, he sees even more novel applications of this technology that will transform patient prognoses and heart surgery in the future.

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Dr. Najm has received particular acclaim for using 3D models to plan pioneering procedures to treat seven patients whose complex conditions were exacerbated by heterotaxy – a situation where internal organs are not positioned in the chest and abdomen in the standard way.

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Of these seven cases, a baby named Paisley Curtis presented with a particularly complex case as, among other defects, her heart did not have the anatomically standard division into two ventricles where the right one pumps blood to […]

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