Man survives 17 months without his heart

- The 25-year-old American Stan Larkin lived for nearly eighteen months with an artificial heart. Larkin, who suffers from a hereditary heart disease, was on the waiting list for a donor heart, he received two weeks ago.

In December 2014 was removed in his heart and replaced with an external artificial heart, a machine which weighs more than six kilograms. The device, a kind of backpack is designed for people with heart failure and complete pumping all that time the blood through the body of Larkin.

Although the recovery of the American progressing well, he describes the past year and a half as an 'emotional rollercoaster'. 'I received the transplant two weeks ago and I feel that I can jog now. I want to thank the donor and hope to meet the family one day. Hopefully they want that too. '
  
    
     
      
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Yesterday died the 'Yes, unless' organ donor scheme D66. The party wanted all adults were automatically a donor unless they indicate they want to. Earlier, among other things already let the VVD, PVV, Christian Union and SGP know that they were too far to the proposal from D66 MP Pia Dijkstra. Now, the CDA Group by unanimous cut the knot and thus a parliamentary majority for Dijkstra's plan misjudged.