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Mechanical heart removed after organ heals self
A 15-year-old Camrose, Alta. girl has become one of the few patients to be taken off an artificial heart device because her own diseased heart healed itself.
"It's changed everything," Melissa Mills told CTV's Canada AM. "I have such a respect for life now."
Mills was sent to Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital last year after a sudden illness affected her heart and a transplant was urgently needed.
Her parents were told to prepare for the possibility that their daughter might not survive.
