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Boy, 15, gets first permanent artifical heart
A 15-year-old Italian boy has become the first child patient in the world to
be permanently implanted with an artificial heart.
The boy, who has not been named, underwent a 10 hour operation last week and
is still in intensive care but has woken up following the surgery and said
to be well and talking.
As he already suffers from a muscle wasting illness called Duchenne syndrome
he was ineligible to be placed on the heart transplant waiting list.
The illness causes rapid muscle degeneration and the teenager had been
confined to bed and unable to walk and was close to death when surgeons
decided to install the artificial heart.
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Paediatric cardiac surgeon Dr Antonio Amodeo carried out the operation with an
eight strong team at the Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital in Rome last week
and details were announced today/yesterday.
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