Nathan's Prayer » Jack Eigel http://nathansprayer.com Hope for Children with Congenital Heart Defects Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:12:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Flip-flop Heart Transplant? http://nathansprayer.com/2009/09/22/flip-flop-heart-transplant/ http://nathansprayer.com/2009/09/22/flip-flop-heart-transplant/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:26:48 +0000 Karen http://nathansprayer.com/?p=2419 phpnqdl5cpmToday’s  Good Morning America covered an interesting story of a man with situs inversus (organs on the opposite side).  Jack Eigel lived with this condition just fine until he required a heart transplant in his early 50s.  The space for his new heart would be shaped differently, complicating an already difficult surgical procedure.

This interests me because Nathan has dextrocardia, too.  Hopefully, he will never need a heart transplant, but it certainly would pose a challenge if he ever did.  It was a relief to see a happy ending for the gentleman on GMA–his transplant was a success.

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