(ANSA) - Turin, July 26 - A three-year-old boy has been saved by a heart transplant at Turin's Regina Margherita after spending a year and a half connected to an artificial heart, the hospital said on Friday.
The child was born with a serious form of dilated cardiomyopathy.
He had to spent 520 days in the hospital's pediatric heart surgery department while he waited for an organ donation.
Child gets transplant after 18 months with artificial heart
Three-year-old was born with dilated cardiomyopathy