A 1-year-old boy who was born with a congenital heart defect and underwent three open-heart surgeries in his first months of life, now has a new heart.
Easton Sinnamon, of Asheboro, North Carolina, underwent a first-of-its kind heart transplant. The baby not only received a new heart, but also, two weeks later in a separate procedure, received thymus tissue from the same donor.
They were able to try the procedure first in Easton, because he was born both with a congenital heart defect and a deficiency of T cells, which protect the body from infection and are developed in the thymus, an organ that sits close to the heart, according to Turek. PHOTO: Kaitlyn Sinnamon holds her son, Easton, while he was on the waiting list for a heart transplant.
"He'd been listed for over 100 days ... and we weren't going to let those days that we'd been waiting and fighting be for nothing," she said. "It was really hard there towards the end. We were scared that we were going to lose him."In early August, doctors told Sinnamon the news she had been waiting over three months to hear -- they had found a donor heart for Easton.
Sinnamon said that once a new heart was beating inside Easton, his recovery was fast, adding, "With a functioning heart, he just kind of took off." "It's incredibly rewarding to know that something you worked on in the laboratory was able to be translated, and you can actually see tangible evidence that it's helping someone," said Turek, who has researched the use of thymus cells in transplants for the past five years. "Especially a child like Easton, who really wasn't doing well for a long period of time."
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