US teen lives 118 days without heart – news bulletin

US teen lives 118 days without heart

A teenage girl who survived nearly four months without a human heart is released from the hospital after a successful transplant.

The patient, D’Zhana Simmons of South Carolina, said the experience of living for so long with a machine pumping her blood was "scary."

Pavithra George reports.


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