Monday, July 13, 2009

Girl With 2 Heart

A girl 16 years old from Wales have two heart, and she is really health. When she was a baby she get a heart donor that stick to the original heart.

Doctors said, her original hearth is work normally, and after 3.5 years her artificial heart take out from her chest. Sir Magdi Yacoub, a doctor that lead of this surgery. Artificial heart is planted when Hannah was 2 years old, that surprised and delighted extraordinary. Likewise journal Lancet reported on Monday 13.

The operation is done on 1995 and survive Hannah because she have a cardiomyopathy diseases, the condition that make her heart bigger twice and risk of being loose from the body.

Heart donor that is planted can function to pump the blood flow to entire Hannah body that possible for the original heart take a rest. When she was 10 years, She getting problem because of drug consume to avoid from artificial heart refuse. Then Hannah get tumor and beginning to grow and must have a chemotherapy.

For getting a chemo, doctor team should lessen the drug (immunosuppressants). The effect then Hannah body refuse for artificial heart, the doctor just have one alternative to take up this artificial heart.

After three years, her original heart can work properly without any medicine. Three years have over Hannah fully recover, as doctor Sir Magdi and Victor Tsang. Sir Magdi said the recover of Hannah heart like a miracle. A new history of medical experiment. Doctor is not predict that original heart will recover. The heart that can’t contraction anymore, now can work normally, even more better than artificial heart.

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