Toddler received world’s smallest artificial heart as he waited for a transplant
Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant.
The tiny titanium pump weighs only 11 grams and can handle a blood flow of 1.5 liters a minute. An artificial heart for adults weighs 900 grams.
Surgeon Antonio Amodeo said the baby had become family and his team wanted to do everything to help him.
“Every day, every hour, for more than one year he was with us. So when we had a problem we couldn’t do anything more than our best,” he said. (Photo: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
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Greyhound bus beheader Vince Li: ‘I don’t hear voices’
Vince Li says he understands why people are still afraid of him.
He says he remembers what happened on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg during that midsummer’s nightmare in 2008.
But now that he is medicated for his illness, he says the aliens he was afraid of have disappeared, the voices he heard are silent, and he is aware of why it happened on a different level.
Painfully aware.
“I try to forget it … I feel nervous. I feel painful. I am embarrassed. It was wrong.”
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