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American Teenager Survives 4 Months Without Heart

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dr-awale:
A 14-year old American girl was kept alive for 118 days without a heart while waiting for a second heart transplant at a hospital in Florida; surgeons fitted a custom-made artificial heart after removing the first transplanted heart in July this year.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/130097.php

dr-awale:
is it possible the human can live with out 1 day

Horowitz:
Maybe the doctors hooked her up to a machine while she was waiting for the second heart transplant. Then the brain kept going and the machine did the work for the heart?  :-\

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