Heart of a Champion 5
Laughing with delight as she wriggles down a playground slide, rosy-cheeked Izabella Neira looks like any other first-grader letting off steam after a day of school.
But 6‑year-old Izabella is anything but ordinary. Inside her tiny chest, a new heart and lungs keep her alive — organs she received more than five years ago as one of the youngest patients in the United States to undergo a heart-lung transplant.
