NBC Chicago - The headline to this story almost reads like a typo–but it’s true. Leroy Hanes was able to leave Chicago’s Advocate Christ Medical Center Thursday [Sep 13] without his own heart.
Thanks to “the world’s only totally artificial heart”, Hanes can keep living his life while he awaits a donor heart, according to a WMAQ-TV report. The station’s Nesita Kwan reports Hanes suffered heart failure when he arrived to the medical center and his best chance for survival was a heart transplant.
Thanks to doctors, he doesn’t have to wait for the donor heart in the hospital – he’s free to go home because his artificial heart is portable. The machine fits in a pseudo-backpack, which Hanes wore when he exited the hospital Thursday.
Kwan reports Hanes said he wants to get back to gardening when he returns.
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