Sergio and Emma Petrucci were awarded MBEs for their fundraising after daughter Luna had life-saving heart surgery, and they back the Mirror’s campaign for defibrillators in public
Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant because of other health problems when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery.
Evie Green, four, has been in Freeman Hospital Newcastle for eight months waiting on news of a heart transplant and recently had a scare when she went into septic shock
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday. Navy veteran Lawrence Faucette, 58, was facing near-certain death from heart failure but other health problems meant he wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant, according to doctors at University of Maryland Medicine.