Lisa Salberg, a 48-year-old women in Rockaway Township, New Jersey, is celebrating having a healthy heart after undergoing an eight-hour heart transplant at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark.
Her old heart was burdened with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which caused it to beat loudly, so loudly Salberg could hear it. She was diagnosed with the condition when she was 12.
"My heart had to beat twice as hard to move the blood and oxygen through my body," Salberg said.
Now her new heart beats silently and she is recovering well.
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