GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ A 15-month-old girl is recovering after undergoing a groundbreaking heart-lung transplant surgery.
Parents Krystina Lopez and Jesus Neira had been told daughter Izabella would likely die before her first birthday.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel (http://sunsent.nl/14CGmyn ) reports the child was born with a rare disease that was hardening the tissue in her lungs.
She was considered too young for a transplant and unlikely to find a suitable infant donor.
But specialists at Shands at the University of Florida decided to take Izabella on as their youngest heart-lung transplant candidate ever.
Izabella had to hang on for nine months attached to a ventilator before a match was found.
She underwent surgery on Jan. 27.
Doctors say her prognosis is good.
