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As an infant, she had been given a valve from a pig’s heart; it was never meant to be a longterm fix, her father Kenan says, and last fall it began breaking down.

Margaret Van Bruggen’s family had just 24 hours to decide whether to let Duke surgeons perform a heart-valve-transplant surgery that had never been done before.

To their surprise, a heart became available quickly and on February 21, New Heart Day, Nola’s surgery started at 4 a.m. and would last nine, nerve-wracking hours.

Margaret Van Bruggen’s family had just 24 hours to decide whether to let Duke surgeons perform a heart-valve-transplant surgery that had never been done before.

The heart’s four valves – the mitral, aortic, pulmonary, and tricuspid – open and close to move blood around the body. If a valve becomes damaged or stretched, it can also become leaky.

In a joint effort, doctors in Tiruchi safely delivered a child after it was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal heart condition just days before the due date. According 26-year-old first ...