subject: U.s. "unintentional Girl" Survival 118 Days [print this page] The United States, South Carolina 14-year-old girl Dizha Na? Simmons dilated because of severe heart disease, on July 2 this year, received a heart transplant. However, due to graft failure, the doctor was forced to removed the Di Zhana heart, so she became a "careless people." But incredibly, even though Di Zhana no chest beating heart, but she actually using a specially designed artificial heart, miraculously survived 118 days! It is reported that Di Zhana is by far the youngest, is the first U.S. artificial heart survived to rely on the "mood of people." It is gratifying that, on October 29, Di Zhana finally successfully transplanted a new heart, and is gradually recovering.
Heart transplant failure According to reports, 14-year-old Di Zhana? Simmons is the United States, a South Carolina middle school girls earlier this year, she suddenly began to feel left chest pain, over at the local hospital without result, the parents took Holz came to Miami with her children in hospital. In the end, Di Zhana was diagnosed with severe dilated heart disease, heart disease causes weakness and expansion of the patient can not effectively pumping blood. At the same time, she was also diagnosed with kidney failure. Condition had deteriorated, Di Zhana on July 2 this year, Holz Children's Hospital in Miami had a heart transplant.
However, the transplant failed. After the operation, Di Zhana's new heart sinking, not work, doctors have to fast on July 4 for removal, so she became a "careless people." Even worse, as Di Zhana very weak at this time the body, doctors can not immediately her second heart transplant! In order to sustain life, the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital emergency doctors had to Di Zhana installed a new artificial heart, so as to maintain the Di Zhana life.
Feel like a "dummy"
Learned that this artificial heart pump device from the two heart composed of compressed air through continuous way, to help maintain the normal operation of patients with systemic blood. One of the pumps to replace Di Zhana the right ventricle, blood entered her lungs, and the other to replace Di Zhana the left ventricle, the blood into her body. The doctors connected through a wire heart pump, using notebook computers to monitor it at any time.
After more than four months, Di Zhana life has been to rely on artificial heart, and her chest, "empty." Di Zhana said that in such a long time to rely on only one machine for their own pump that extremely frightening experience, so she did not feel like a life, "dummies." She recalled: "Every day I spent in fear, you never know when it will go wrong. I feel as if a dummy like I do not really existed."
"Heart" lived 118 days
Worse, as Di Zhana also suffered from severe renal failure, and serious complications of liver failure and gastrointestinal bleeding, she was forced to lie in bed all day, every day dialysis, breathing through the respirator. But incredibly, the "no desire Girl," Di Zhana actually using special artificial heart, miraculously survived 118 days tenacious! University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital, director of children's heart surgery MarcoRicci Medical Branch, said: "She has not the heart to the survival of 118 days, during which her blood circulation and rely only on two blood pump. For a while only the 14-year-old girl words, this is simply a miracle. "
Living artificial heart in by 118 days later, on October 29, doctors finally successfully transplanted for the Di Zhana a new heart. Surgery the next day, she received a kidney transplant. It is gratifying that the current Di Zhana well, and is gradually recovering. November 19, she finally allowed to go home, and will usher in its 15 years of age 22 birthday. She is happy to say: "I can do not need to walk with artificial heart, it makes me feel better, I want to play with friends."
Youngest "unintentional" and a record
11 19, University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital held a press conference for the first time revealed the inside story of this medical miracle.
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