Saturday, August 25, 2007

Boy 'too ill to live' leaves hospital - The Guardian 25th August 2007

A 13-month-old boy left hospital yesterday, five months after his mother was told he was too ill to survive a heart condition and agreed his life support machine should be switched off. Jack Vellam is the youngest patient to stay on an artificial heart for 120 days while he recovered from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.

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