Here are five key facts:
1. Researchers envision using 3-D printing to preplan and practice operations, train new doctors, create transplant organs, build body parts and develop and test new medical devices, such as those to prevent or treat stroke and heart problems.
2. The case of Teresa Flint, who had a life-threatening aneurysm and was treated by Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, is being used at The Jacobs Institute to showcase the researchers’ efforts to play a leading role in the technology’s development.
3. When trial runs on Flint’s procedure were unsuccessful, Dr. Siddiqui and other physicians used real-time X-rays to visualize the patient’s blood system and manipulate the device, a soft metal mesh, at the tip of a wire threaded inside a catheter that was deployed into Flint’s aneurysm through an artery in her groin to the blood vessels in her brain.
4. The Jacobs Institute first obtained the 3-D printer in 2013 and is among a handful of organizations working with Stratasys, a 3-D printing manufacturer co-headquarter in Minneapolis, Minn., and Rehovot, Israel.
5. Around the world, researchers are looking at 3-D printing to produce bones, ears, implants, blood vessels and body organs.
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