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Thu 11 Nov 2009Pioneering heart pump operation saves mother with 'life expectancy of four to five weeks'
THE LIFE of a 37-year-old mother of four has been saved following the implantation in her abdomen of an artificial heart pump at Dublin’s Mater hospital in the first operation of its kind in the country.
Elaine O’Hara from Ballinteer, Dublin was bed-bound due to a heart condition up to a few weeks ago. She had been given just weeks to live as antibodies in her blood made her unsuitable for a heart transplant.
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