Teen gets world’s first permanent artificial heart transplant
Teen gets world’s first permanent artificial heart transplant

He is a 15 years old boy and has become the world’s first child to live with an artificial but permanent heart. The Italian boy, suffering from muscle-wasting illness Duchenne’s syndrome, had the 10-hour operation last week to implant the heart and was said to be well in responsive to the medication, reports news agancies.

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[This article was published in the June 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

News Review : June 2010

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