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Transplant Recipient Beats Odds, Celebrates 32 Years With New Heart
A man is celebrating 32 years of life after having a heart transplant — beating the typical post-transplant life expectancy by decades. “I’ve had a complete life,” Tom Cook said. “A complete second chance at life. It still goes on and hopefully for a longtime more.” In 1989, a congenital heart condition called Marfan syndrome hospitalized Cook at just 25…
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Heart Transplant Recipient Celebrates 32 Years
A local man is celebrating 32 years of life after having a heart transplant — beating the typical post-transplant life expectancy by decades. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.
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After Enduring 3 Heart Attacks in 1 Year, Woman Receives Heart Transplant
At 27, Kara DuBois experienced chest pain but her doctor explained that she had a panic attack. So she thought little of it until five years later. She learned that she actually had experienced a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery. Since then she has had four more heart attacks and was in end-stage heart failure. “I didn’t know that...
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Heart Transplant Patient Visited by Drake Can Now Call Him on His Cellphone
The girl who got her wish to meet Drake while awaiting heart surgery in Chicago last month now has a direct line to the rapper — he gave Sofia Sanchez an iPhone with his private number so she can text him directly, she told the “Today” show.
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Denver Broncos Player Surprises Fan With Super Bowl Tickets
A Denver Broncos player dropped a bombshell on a cancer and heart transplant patient the night before the Super Bowl and was moved to tears by the encounter.
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Toddler Given Police Escort to Hospital Through Snowstorm ‘Resting Comfortably'
A 23-month-old Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, boy who was escorted by snowplows and state troopers for an emergency procedure during this week’s snowstorm was resting comfortably Friday in a hospital. Bentley Gingerlowski has a rare congenital heart defect and on Tuesday he needed an emergency treatment. But it was at the height of a powerful snowstorm and the doctors equipped to do...
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Troopers, Snowplow, National Guard Lead Toddler to Life-Saving Medical Care During Pa. Storm
The National Guard and Pennsylvania State Police teamed up with PennDOT to ensure that snow wouldn’t stop a toddler in need of life-saving medical care from getting to the hospital.
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Infant Who Received Heart Transplant at Holtz Children's Hospital Heading Home
It was a celebration in the form of a press conference Wednesday at Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami where a young girl with a rare heart condition was finally heading home.