HOW COOL IS THIS? 🤩

Women in #Bolivia are #KNITTING tiny #occluders ('top hats' to block a hole in the #heart) of ELASTIC METAL, which are then folded up in a catheter, inserted into the body, travel ON THEIR OWN to the heart, then 'pop open' to their proper shape, b/c they 'remember' what shape they are supposed to be.

Old craft meets future #scifi

*faints from coolness of it all*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32076070

#Cardiology #PDA #HeartDefects #Indigenous #PatentDuctusArteriosus
#Aymara #LaPaz