Tyson Smith, born with a progressive illness that caused his heart to become enlarged, has received a donor heart that works along with his own ticker.
donor heartMan has two hearts that beat as one after lifesaving cardiac sur...NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News Wed, 02/23/2011 - 15:16
Texas Children's discharges history-making patientEurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Thu, 02/11/2010 - 23:00
(Texas Children's Hospital) The wait is over for 16-year-old Francesco "Frank" De Santiago. On Jan. 29, De Santiago received a donor heart in a nine-hour transplant operation at Texas Children's Heart Center De Santiago made news last October as the first child ever discharged from a pediatric hospital with an implanted mechanical heart pump, or ventricular assist device (VAD). Infant Heart Transplant Need Not Be Permanent (CME/CE)MedPage Today Surgery Tue, 07/14/2009 - 07:30
WHEELING, W.Va. (MedPage Today) -- Doctors have found that a baby's severely damaged heart eventually recovered fully after a donor heart was grafted onto it, allowing the second organ to be removed later. British girl's heart heals itself after transplantHeadlines from the Associated Press Mon, 07/13/2009 - 19:27
LONDON (AP) -- British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.... |
