1 of 2 sisters awaiting transplant gets new heart

A girl of the north of Texas the 7 years old girl which was placed on a list of Clerc's Office with his/her sister last spring obtained a new heart Monday.

The sisters, both placed on the list on April 3, had been diagnosed with the restrictive cardiomyopathy, which means that their hearts put 't slacken as they would have between the pumps, thus they put fill correctly of blood.

Emily 's sister 9 year old, Shayde Smith, always awaits a new heart.

After the five hours surgery Monday, Emily was making marvelously, Dr. says Kristine Guleserian, the paediatric surgeon cardiothoracic who carried out the team during the operation to the children's dallas medical centre.

It seems, told to the girls's mother, Natalie Van Noy impressive.

A difference it is already noted is that Emily's hands and feet are now hot. She was , icy of cold she said.

Van Noy said that Shayde went also to see his/her sister in the intensive care and held its hand.

Guleserian, surgical director of the cardiac programme of transplantation to the children 's and the medical centre of the south-west of University of Texas, indicated that the condition the divided sisters is rare, to less one in million diagnosed children.

One to two years after diagnosis, the possibility of survival is only from the 40 to 50 percent, it said. The condition could cause a blood clot or a sudden cardiac death.

While it isn 't rare so that the children of same parents require for Clerc's Offices, it is rare that they would need them at the same time, WFP Silvestri indicated, a spokesperson for the alliance of Clerc's Office of south-west, one of the agencies of donation of body through the country which provides bodies to the hospitals of Clerc's Office.

Two is at the same time, rather unknown it said.

Emily was a higher priority for the Clerc's Office than Shayde because it had more symptoms, including wheezing charms and its lips, toes and ends of the finger turning blue when it obtained the cold too much.

Guleserian indicated that while they prepared with the surgery, it realized that it, Shayde and the girls 'mother were each of the three collars of wearing of heart. When Guleserian noted these was not Emily carrying a collar of heart, they indicated to him that Emily had broken. Guleserian answered: Us about him to today give nine.

Van Noy said that a friend had given him a collar with an angel of guard in a heart during the summer. Then the girls obtained the same collar for Christmas. She said that Emily's chain broke a few days ago.

Van Noy said it maintaining on a mission to obtain in Emily a new chain for the collar.

Guleserian indicated that she thinks that the successful surgery provided a direction of relief for Shayde on what she will undergo.

Van Noy was appropriate. It is still nervous about it, but it said that now that Emily did it through, it knows that it.

He nonknown what because the girls of the conditions. One of the girls the paediatric cardiologists indicated that while the girls condition seems to run in the families, it has not however proven to be genetic. Their mother said that there is no history of the condition in its family or the family of the girls's father. The younger half-brother has a normal heart.

The girls are area of Boyd, approximately 30 miles of the North-West of Fort Worth.