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Arianne receives a new heart as she turns 14.
three times its normal size and was
functioning at less than 18 percent
of its capacity. The cause was
thought to be a virus that affected
her heart.
When her conditioned worsened,
Arianne, the granddaughter of for-
mer Detroiter Donald Starler, now
of Winnetka, Calif, was admitted to
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
Medical. Center an hour and a half
from her home in Mission Viejo,
Calif. There, her family learned her
only chance for survival was a heart
transplant.
On Nov. 9, Arianne was told her
name would be placed on a heart
transplant list and she would go
home and wait and hope a heart
would be available in time to save
her.
Arianne at her winter formal
"That day, her mom, Diane, gath-
dance, two months after her
ered up all Arianne's personal things
heart transplant.
[from the hospital] and a huge box
of medical supplies and made a cou-
ple of trips to the car," said
Arianne's dad, Andy. "But a nurse
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
came up to her and told her
Staff Writer
Arianne's cardiologist was on the
phone. He told her not to go home
ast summer, a healthy, ener-
—
that there might be a heart for
getic Arianne Schuurs was
Arianne."
making plans to start high
Diane called Andy who called the
school as a member of the cheer-
school
where Arianne's siblings,
leading squad. But by time classes
Kristen,
11, and Andrew, 9, were
were in full swing, Arianne was at
and
told
them to have the kids on
home recovering from a lifesaving
standby.
Within an hour, Diane got
heart transplant.
the
word
that the heart [which came
After developing a persistent
from
a
20-year-old
woman whose
cough and seemingly mild cold
name
has
been
kept
confidential]
symptoms in June, a chest X-ray
was
a
match.
revealed Arianne suffered from a
Diane and Andy learned later that
deadly heart condition known as
severe dilated cardiomyopathy, a dis- Arianne's doctors believed that she
would not survive another week
ease of the heart muscle that causes
without
a transplant.
the heart to become enlarged and to
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