The Girl Without Heart
Nov 21, 2008 Science, Terrible Stuffs
Poor D’Zhana Simmons. 4 months, without a heart, must be too tough for a 14-year-old to suffer.
An American teen-ager 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.
The patient, D’Zhana Simmons of South Carolina, said the experience of living for so long with a machine pumping her blood was “scary.”
“You never knew when it would malfunction,” she said, her voice barely above a whisper, at a news conference at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center.
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