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	US teen lives 118 days without heart

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11-21-2008 5:54 AM

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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
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condition in which the patient's heart becomes weakened and
enlarged and does not pump blood efficiently.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSN1934681720081119?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=22&sp=true"><P> "This, we believe, is the first pediatric patient who has
received such a device in this configuration without the heart,
and possibly one of the youngest that has ... been bridged to
transplantation without her native heart," Ricci said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSN1934681720081119?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=22&sp=true"><P> Ricci said her prognosis was good. But doctors said there
is a 50 percent chance that a heart transplant patient will
need a new heart 12 or 13 years after the first surgery.
 (Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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