Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

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Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing science - and the human body - to its limits.

Transforming patients' lives, at the cutting edge of medicine. Meet the world-leading surgeons pushing science - and the human body - to its limits.

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Surgeons: At the Edge of Life: Series 6: We Can Rebuild You

We Can Rebuild You

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Featuring high-risk cardiac surgery to repair a patient’s aorta threatening to burst.

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform high-risk spinal surgery and attempt to repair a patient’s aorta - the body’s biggest artery - that is threatening to burst.

Consultant cardiac surgeon Amit Modi is faced with the case of 70-year-old grandmother Jeanette, who is in desperate need of surgery, as her aorta - the body’s biggest artery - is diseased and threatening to rupture.

Meanwhile, consultant spinal surgeons Chris Dare and Steve McGillion have a patient whose conditions are so challenging that they need to operate for over 20 hours across two days to try to give him a better quality of life.

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life: Series 6

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Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform complex procedures to save lives.

Surgeons at University Hospital Southampton perform complex procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. But pushing the boundaries of medicine comes with great risk.

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