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Old 04-24-2008, 11:08 AM
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Never mind nicotine patches - a DIY patient is using cigarette packets to cover up a gaping hole in his chest.

Rao Jiacang plastered the packets over himself after running out of money for crucial heart surgery.

Somehow he has survived for ten years, despite his beating heart being gruesomely visible through the paper folds.

But he is now desperate for a donor to come forward to pay for proper treatment to cover over the wound measuring seven by three inches.

Part of his ribs and skin were hacked away by surgeons in 1998, hoping to remove part of his infected lungs.

But the 51-year-old, from Taining in China's Guangdong province, says he was unable to afford the rest of the treatment after stitches were taken out.

He said: "I had the operation in 1998. I was then laid up for almost five years but gradually got used to the wound, and since 2003 I have been back on my feet.

"But no-one would give me a job and people were scared of me with the big hole in my chest.

"Because of that, I haven't dared to go outside, in case people get frightened."

He says he keeps the plaster coverings sterile, and changes the cigarette boxes several times each day.

Local doctor Wan Fi said: "It's a miracle that Rao could have lived so many years with such a massive opening in his chest."

His friend Xi Lin, 35, who was present when the plaster was changed, said: "I did not know what to expect but then I saw a heart through the hole in his chest, and it was actively beating."

An estimated one in 8,000 people are dextrocardiac - that is, their heart is not on the left hand side of their body, but slightly to the right.
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Re: Man With Visible Heart

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Old 04-24-2008, 11:40 PM
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are you fucking kidding me ??? WTF, someone help this man!
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Old 04-27-2008, 11:35 AM
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One of the weirdest things i've ever seen.
I mean wtf ?
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Old 04-29-2008, 10:19 AM
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Re: Man With Visible Heart

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An estimated one in 8,000 people are dextrocardiac - that is, their heart is not on the left hand side of their body, but slightly to the right
even then you would NOT see the heart you would have to push the lungs away first !!
and try to immagine the risc of a infection ...no way !!

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..here you can see the heart , just because the two lung wings on the left are not ventilated ( because of a stab wound)

..in my opinion it`s one of these net-storys again
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Re: Man With Visible Heart

Hmm...maybe you can't actually see the heart, but instead see movement of the tissue in front of it as the heart beats.
Also it says surgeons removed parts of his lungs as they were infected. Maybe that has something to do with it. Who knows...
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awesome.
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No offence ,but as far as i my knowledge ,your heart aint in your right side of your chest its in the left side ,behind the sternum pointing left.
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In America, health care kills you!
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Re: Man With Visible Heart

The last paragraph states that "1 in 8000 people are DEXTROCARDIAC (your heart is along the right side of your chest).. therefore, this guy could be one of them..
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