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Friday, February 23, 2001, updated at 17:12(GMT+8)
Life  

All Heart Transplant Operations Successful in Shanghai

All six people who received a heart transplant operation at the Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital over the last nine months have survived and now lead a normal life.

The six people, aged from 12 to 48, all suffered from ectatic myocardiopathy.

The surgical operations only took an average of 45 minutes each and the transplant recipients were discharged from the hospital within a week.

Xia Yun, a 12-year-old girl from east China's Jiangsu Province, was diagnosed as having myocardiopathy last year. At that time her heart was twice the size of a normal person.

Xia had the operation in May 2000. The operation proved to be difficult because Xia was young yet her heart donor was an adult.

The girl, who went back to school soon after leaving the hospital, is believed to be the youngest person who has received a heart transplant operation in China.

Wu Guolin, a farmer, who also received the operation last year, can now undertake farm work and is able to carry things as heavy as 50 kilograms.







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All six people who received a heart transplant operation at the Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital over the last nine months have survived and now lead a normal life.

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