Paralyzed Girl Doesn't Need Vent Thanks To Miracle Surgery
Aug 12, 2013 7:09:29 GMT -8
Post by DJ on Aug 12, 2013 7:09:29 GMT -8
Palestinian girl paralyzed in bomb attack can now speak, smell and breathe without a ventilator thanks to miracle surgery!
Maria Amman was just 6 when an Israeli rocket killed many in her family and injured her spine. Now New York doctor Mark Ginsburg, working in an Israeli hospital, has implanted a phrenic nerve pacemaker that will let her breathe and speak more easily, and smell for the first time in years.
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Maria Amman, 13, takes her first breath with her new phrenic pacemaker with Dr. Nitay Fraenkel (l.) and Dr. Eliezer Be’eri (r.) at ALYN hospital in Jerusalem.
