Boy Off Respirator After Second Liver Transplant
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa. —
Seven-year-old Ronnie DeSillers, the Miami boy who underwent two liver transplants, was taken off a respirator Tuesday, his family said.
Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh turned off the respirator, allowing the child to breathe without assistance for the first time since his second transplant on April 3.
He remained in critical but stable condition, hospital spokeswoman Lynn McMahon said.
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