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 Health & Beauty | May 2007 
Mexican Boy Who Received Heart Transplant Discharged Friday
 Associated Press
| | Residents of San Antonio, Texas, raised half a million dollars for the Adrian's treatment. |
Little Rock - An 8-year-old Mexican boy who received a heart transplant after weeks in a hospital intensive-care unit is set to be discharged from Arkansas Children's Hospital, officials announced Friday.
Adrian Saucedo of Piedras Negras, a border town along the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, underwent a nearly seven-hour surgery May 14. On Friday, the hospital celebrated Adrian's recovery and discharge after only a week and a half.
Hospital officials said Adrian would remain in Little Rock at the Ronald McDonald House for follow-up care and therapy for at least the next month.
Adrian spent more than 60 days at Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas, after doctors determined he suffered from cardiomyopathy - a condition caused in his case by a viral infection eating away at his heart tissue.
While several hospitals rejected him as a transplant patient, residents of San Antonio, Texas, raised half a million dollars for the boy's treatment. Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock admitted Adrian on April 19.
But within days of his arrival, Adrian's condition worsened. Doctors implanted a Berlin heart, the only blood pump available for children at risk of heart failure - a rarity as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only allows it in the most extreme circumstances. |
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