US teenager lives 118 days without heart
China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-21 07:50
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14-year-old D'Zhana Simmons (left), who survived without a heart for nearly four months, sits with her doctors, Si Pham (center) and Marco Ricci at the University of Miami on Wednesday. Reuters |
An American teenager 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.
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