The young woman who was wearing her heart in a backpack is dead

Due to a health problem, Rebecca wore her heart in a backpack and shortly after receiving a transplant, the woman died.

Rebecca Henderson I was a 24 year old girl who lived with her heart in a backpack, specially designed and adapted for this. The young woman died just before a transplant heart: He did not resist and died as a result of complications.

That of Rebecca It was a artificial heartbut he did not place it on his body, but he carried it outside, next to it. I have lived in the UK and I have been one of the two women of this country to live in these conditions.

When finally a heart for Rebecca It was too late and the woman did not resist the previous operation to do the organ transplant. Rebecca's death occurred last week at the hospital in Harefield, UK, according to relatives. She was surrounded by her family and friends.

"Becca He was a person of extraordinary courage, humor and intellectual achievement. He had the admiration and affection of all who taught and learned with her, students and professors"They wrote from St. Anne's College, where she was studying, to send her away.

In 2017 at Rebecca they had extracted his heart because of a cancer, a strange type of cancer and of which there are very few cases in the whole world. Becca She was a graduate student at Oxford University and despite everything, she continued to study, but only last October, when she started using the artificial heart, which weighed 7 kg .

Source: Mendoza Online.

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