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Pump Gives New Hope To Heart Patients
Woman Survives Without Transplant; New Device Helps Heal Heart
May 8, 2009
(CBS) Three years ago, 27-year-old Salina Gonzales was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and was told she had just one month to live.
She thought she had only one option: a heart transplant.
But with time running out, doctors installed an experimental pump in her chest.
And her heart began to heal itself.
