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NEWS: Queen of Hearts

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Christopher

Portland, OR

November 2002

APR 13, 2006 08:38 PM

CULTURE: Queen of Hearts

There once was a girl with a heart that was sick, inflamed, and would eventually fail. So, doctors transplanted a new one and that girl had two heartsone beat constantly and was piggybacked upon the other. And so the girl had two hearts for almost ten years.

Then, the doctor had to take the girl, now 12, off of the medication that prevented her body from attacking her transplanted heart. To the doctors astonishment, the old heart had recovered.

[Doctors] had determined that her own heart had recovered sufficiently to work on its own, Tsang said.

"It is a very unique situation for a piggyback heart transplant to offer a window, a period of time, for the diseased heart to recover sufficiently to take over the circulation again 10 years later," he said. []

Hannah had suffered from cardiomyopathy, a condition in which her heart was inflamed to much bigger than its original size. Tsang said she made a quick recovery and went home less than a week after the operation.

The hospital said she was doing well, but because her case was so unique doctors did not know what her long-term prognosis was.

Sir Magdi Yacoub, who performed Hannah's original heart transplant when she was two, advised surgeons who carried out the operation on Feb. 20

This is the first surgery of its kind in the United Kingdom.

PRockGirlScout

Portland, OR

October 2005

APR 13, 2006 08:51 PM

That's awesome news.

mamet

Charleston, SC

March 2005

APR 13, 2006 08:55 PM

That's quite incredible.

benjiB

Richmond, VA

November 2004

APR 13, 2006 09:02 PM

That's amazing.

Unskeptic

Columbus, OH

November 2005

APR 13, 2006 09:07 PM

When my heart gave out I just drank until it got better. I suppose if your a kid that wouldn't work......

FallFromGrace

Seattle, WA

March 2004

APR 13, 2006 09:21 PM

Science is fun!

monkeyVSrobot33

Billerica, MA

February 2005

APR 13, 2006 10:06 PM

and to think that xxGracefallenxx got angry when I told him I wanted to use him as an organ bank...
2 hearts ARE better than one!

Bloodied_Up

Somerville, MA

May 2004

APR 13, 2006 10:18 PM

i hate you

Lycoris

Toronto, ON

October 2005

APR 13, 2006 10:59 PM

Awesome!

ThisIsWhoWeAre

Oakland, CA

July 2004

APR 13, 2006 11:18 PM

Thanks for sharing some upbeat news! Good for her.

DamionW

Philadelphia, PA

March 2006

APR 13, 2006 11:20 PM

Wow. Thats pretty cool. I wonder if they can reuse the heart elsewhere for someone else waiting for one.

Jack_Straw

Fairbanks, AK

December 2004

APR 14, 2006 02:12 AM

I would want to keep both hearts. oh, and 2 livers and four kidneys would probably be good too. not to mention lungs

Maraxia

United Kingdom

March 2005

APR 14, 2006 02:38 AM

What's that song from bill and ted?
"two, hearts, are better than one
double the pleasure, triple the fun"?
I substituted heads for hearts.
See what I did there?

Someguysteve

USA

September 2005

APR 14, 2006 07:07 AM

J24U

Danvers, MA

February 2006

APR 14, 2006 07:15 AM

One of the cooler things I've heard this year

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

APR 14, 2006 07:21 AM

"Piggyback Heart" is a great Emo band name.

Telltale

USA

May 2004

APR 14, 2006 08:39 AM

That is the coolest thing. Ever.

DeceptiviewFilm

Parlin, NJ

February 2004

APR 14, 2006 08:56 AM

Good For her.

dingoes8

Milwaukee, WI

March 2004

APR 14, 2006 09:01 AM

Her heart was oversized so they threw another one in? How did it fit?

Margot_Dent

Los Angeles, CA

February 2004

APR 14, 2006 09:50 AM

science....is....AWESOME.

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

APR 14, 2006 09:54 AM

That's so cool I don't even want to make the Juice Newton reference I came here to make.

CaptainAmerika

Washington, DC

July 2005

APR 14, 2006 10:24 AM

Very interesting.

Margot_Dent

Los Angeles, CA

February 2004

APR 14, 2006 10:29 AM

PointBlank said:
"Piggyback Heart" is a great Emo band name.

paging _DictionaryGirl_!

Oren

United Kingdom

January 2006

APR 14, 2006 10:50 AM

....Wow.

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

APR 14, 2006 03:59 PM

Margot_Dent said:

PointBlank said:
"Piggyback Heart" is a great Emo band name.

paging _DictionaryGirl_!

Band name: Hannah's Piggyback Heart
First album: XtenXyearsXreversedXtheXbleedingXinsideX

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