少女心脏恢复正常

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十五岁的加拿大少女去年住进了爱城的Stollery Children's Hospital, 因为一场突然的疾病使她需要心脏移植.
医生给她装了一颗人工心, 可以起到心脏使血液循环的作用.
不过几个月后,她恢复的非常快,她的心肌慢慢的恢复了它的力量.
她装上人工心后146天, 又进行了将人工心取出的手术.
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A 15-year-old girl has become the first Canadian to have an artificial heart removed after her own heart healed itself.

Melissa Mills arrived at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital last year after a sudden illness made her critically ill and a candidate for a heart transplant.

6 z0 Q& y* E6 V8 q. QDoctors at the hospital implanted the Berlin Heart, a portable mechanical device that keeps blood pumping in an ailing heart, so she could survive until a transplant became available.
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% Z, [" h; T8 V1 A: x0 dBut over the next few months, Melissa's overall condition improved dramatically, and her heart muscle regained much of its strength. After 146 days on the Berlin Heart, Melissa underwent surgery to have the device removed.
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" A8 y: G  g" D4 N6 g- n"We thought the miracle was that the Berlin Heart would give us time to find the perfect donor heart for Melissa," said her mother, Sharon Mills, in a release. "We are overwhelmed that instead, the Berlin Heart gave her own heart time to rest and repair itself."

) y/ w! u" _  C: \# wThe Berlin Heart is the world's first mechanical heart designed for children. To date, five patients have received a Berlin Heart at the Stollery Children's Hospital.

) c- c: \1 X8 B7 ~: C1 @Dr. Ivan Rebeyka, clinical leader of the Berlin Heart program, said he's encouraged by the device's role in human heart regeneration. "We are just beginning to understand all the applications for the Berlin Heart," he said.

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祝福这个勇敢的女孩子！
心脏的自我修复能力这么强啊，感谢上帝！