Despite having no heart in his body, Stan Larkin stunned doctors by still playing sports.
AN INCREDIBLE 25-year-old man has proved that it’s possible to live more than a year while literally heartless.
Stan Larkin went a massive 555 days wearing an “artificial heart” backpack, which filled in after his own heart was removed while he awaited a transplant donor.
Both he and his brother Dominique were diagnosed with familial cardiomyopathy as teenagers – a terrible condition where your heart can fail without warning, the Daily Mirror reported.
Both siblings were on the transplant list for several years, and eventually had their hearts removed to make way for healthy donor ones.
For the duration of the wait, both brothers were fitted with a 13.5 pound backpack that connects directly to the cardiovascular system and takes over where the heart leaves off.
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