Sunday, June 21, 2009
Delicate flowers.
Tee with mechanical heart on her lap
KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - A 15-year-old boy was implanted with a mechanical heart on Saturday, a landmark in Malaysia's medical history.
The life-extending procedure is also a first in Asia and Australasia.
The surgery was performed by a team of Malaysian doctors and medical experts at Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) headed by chief cardiothoracic surgeon Datuk Dr Mohd Azhari Yakub.
The mechanical heart keeps Muhammad Fikri Nor Azmi alive as he waits for a heart donor.
Fikri was diagnosed with dilated cardio-myopathy, a heart disease which can lead to heart failure, when he was an infant but he started showing signs of deterioration only early this year.
GIRL AWAITS FOR A REAL HEART
IJN chief cardiothoracic surgeon Datuk Dr Mohd Azhari Yakub said the main purpose of the media conference was to highlight the importance of donating organs. 
Tee Hui Yi
A few years had passed and all is well for the two of them. With big smiles on their faces, they look like normal teenagers when I met them today.
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Happy Father's Day Abah.
Thank you for everything.
xx
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