Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Teen lives 118 days without heart


MIAMI - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday. The doctors said they knew of another case in which an adult had been kept alive in Germany for nine months without a heart but said they believed this was the first time a child had survived in this manner for so long. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Join The NRA