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Health Related Forums => Health News and Events => Topic started by: dr-awale on February 26, 2009, 07:45:37 PM

Title: American Teenager Survives 4 Months Without Heart
Post by: dr-awale on February 26, 2009, 07:45:37 PM

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 (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/130097.php)

Title: Re: American Teenager Survives 4 Months Without Heart
Post by: dr-awale on May 13, 2009, 09:31:46 PM

is it possible the human can live with out 1 day

Title: Re: American Teenager Survives 4 Months Without Heart
Post by: Horowitz on May 13, 2009, 11:09:22 PM

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?  :-\