{"id":4080,"date":"2014-03-30T04:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:53:17","slug":"tiny-patients-given-the-gift-of-life-by-rch-cardiac-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/tiny-patients-given-the-gift-of-life-by-rch-cardiac-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny patients given the gift of life by RCH cardiac team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Lucie van den Berg<strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0Tim Caraffa<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4081\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/684739-8afb378e-b63b-11e3-bf07-f57290eb1fc2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4081 \" alt=\"684739-8afb378e-b63b-11e3-bf07-f57290eb1fc2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/684739-8afb378e-b63b-11e3-bf07-f57290eb1fc2-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arielle, 10 months, and Maisy, 3, both have heart transplants. Photo courtesy of the Sunday Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Baby Arielle is the youngest patient in the world to have a successful heart transplant after being kept alive on an artificial heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 10-month-old\u2019s own failing heart was irreparable, but her size and age made a happy outcome a very long shot. She was the first and the tiniest of these little sweethearts shown here to be saved by the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital cardiac team.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia McGuire, four, and Maisy Bodinnar, two, were also kept alive by the same artificial heart, called a Berlin Heart, that maintained their blood flow to receive heart transplants.<\/p>\n<p>The trio spent between two weeks and five months hooked up to the life-sustaining machine.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sunday Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/victoria\/how-tiny-patients-given-the-gift-of-life-by-royal-childrens-hospital-cardiac-team\/story-fnii5sms-1226868684823\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full Sunday Herald Sun story.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to the Good Friday Appeal head to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone (03) 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby Arielle is the youngest patient in the world to have a successful heart transplant after being kept alive on an artificial heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}