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 Mechanical heart removed after organ heals self
Mechanical heart removed after organ heals self
A 15-year-old Camrose, Alta. girl has become the first Canadian to be taken off an artificial heart device because her own diseased heart healed itself. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago
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 maxriter
1 year ago
Amazing - I have never heard about a heart disease that could cure itself. I'm really glad for Melissa - hope she'll be fine. Great find! Definitely upvote.
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 pocksuck...
1 year ago
I initially read Camrose as comatose and thought that is pretty bitter-sweet, but that's cool. If they could find out what happened (without it originally being a misdiagnosos...) then that could be useful info.
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 TraumaMa...
1 year ago
They didn't really go into details on how it healed itself, but it sounds like a phenonmenon I have seen in my line of work.

Younger people (this gal exlcluded as her heart was NOT healthy) do not have the same advantages as older people, believe it or not.

As the heart gets older and diseased our own bodies create a "natural" bypass.

If I were to keel over tommorrow, it would be unlikely I would be able to be brought back.

Older people have a higher success rate as their bodies have compenstated and rerouted to accomodate for the flaws in the delivery system already. (as told to me by my friend, the Coroner and a wonderful ER doc)

/runs off to find article now.

Anyoo! yay for her!!
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 TraumaMa...
1 year ago
Natural bypass

Cool, huh?
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 misswink...
1 year ago
« TraumaMamma : Natural bypass

Cool, huh?
Very cool. But I'm still afraid to grow old.
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 pocksuck...
1 year ago
Aren't we awesome?

That is pretty amazing by any standards.

Although I have to say I was thinking a bit of Arnie in T2 rerouting his primary power...
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