To: nickcarraway
"He and his mom say he was born with half-a-heart. He only has one right ventricle instead of two, and he doesn't have fully oxygenated blood traveling to his tissues like the rest of us." Most people have a single right ventricle.
According to this article, the boy has only a left ventricle, and no right ventricle.
4 posted on
05/11/2014 12:14:05 AM PDT by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: TChad
It sounds exactly like my grandson’s condition, and it has a name. Hypo plastic left heart. It is rare, and most don’t survive infancy. My grandson lived sixteen years.
7 posted on
05/11/2014 5:56:51 AM PDT by
billhilly
(Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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