Heart and Lung
Transplant Patient Doing
Well
Four days after
undergoing a multiple
transplant, Mairen
Álvarez opened her eyes
and is started to
breathe on her own on
several occasions.
Doctors at the Hospital
Calderón Guardia
performed an historic
transplant of a heart
and lungs on the 21 year
old girl.
Although Mairen is still
in delicate condition,
she is holding on to
life and is showing
positive signs.
"Her blood pressure and
heart rate is within
established limits, she
is still on a
ventilator, however, she
is showing lung
movement", explained
Luis Paulino Hernández,
medical director at the
Calderón.
Marien received visitors
on Monday, as her aunts
made the 8 hour trip
from San Vicente de
Nicoya, Guanacaste,
where the young girl is
from.
The organs that are
giving Mairen life were
donated by the family of
a traffic accident
victim who died on
Sunday, January 13.
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