Heart Transplant Fails to Save Baby
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A baby girl believed to have been the youngest heart transplant recipient in the nation died, nine weeks and four days after surgeons gave her a new heart when she was barely 90 minutes old. Cheyenne Pyle died at Miami’s Jackson Children’s Hospital, where she was born Nov. 10. After the five-hour transplant operation--performed by 35 people in three surgical teams--she was given an 80% chance of surviving. But the little girl began to deteriorate when she developed a chemical imbalance in her blood, hospital officials said.
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