It’s where she had to have her aortic valve replaced once with a pig’s valve and then again, just six years later, with another from a cow. “Having a heart condition doesn’t mean you have to live a limited life.”What do you think? “People are often surprised when I say I’ve had my heart valve replaced by both a pig and cow heart valve, but the surgery saved my life,” says Robyn, who was just 17 when she began to notice something was wrong. Then, when she was just 18, doctors broke the news she would need to have open heart surgery to replace the malformed valve with one from a pig’s heart. So at 24 she underwent her second open heart surgery, which saw the pig heart valve replaced with one from a cow.

Source: Daily Mirror June 05, 2021 13:11 UTC