Fiona coote heart transplant
Fiona coote heart transplant
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Fiona Coote
Australian heart transplant recipient (born )
Fiona Coote is a heart transplant recipient who, upon undergoing surgery, by Dr. Victor Chang, at the age of 14 on 8 April , became Australia's youngest heart transplant recipient.[1][2] While Coote was the fourth transplant recipient in Australia, she is only the second to survive for a significant period.[3][4]
Personal life
Born on 3 January and growing up on a family farm, Galen, 8&#;km (5&#;mi) from Manilla in northern New South Wales, Coote attended a private Catholic school near Tamworth.[5] She married in [6][7]
Heart transplant
The procedure was performed by the Chinese–Australian cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Victor Chang.[8] The urgency was due to complications of viral-induced tonsilitis that dramatically weakened her heart.[2][8] The surgery was performed at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.[8] Whe