This year’s holidays have a bitter taste even for the popular presenter of the marquis Telerán. Kvetka Horváthová lost her good friend Kamil just two days before Christmas. Kamil from Trenčín was kept alive by the so-called The Berlin Heart, a device for heart failure patients waiting for a transplant. During the summer, he also spoke about it in a report.
“Two years ago, the little heart collapsed completely. At that time, there were all kinds of thoughts about whether I would make it until the morning,” he confided in July to Kamil, who received the Berlin Heart, which helped him to correct his threatening condition.
“It is one of the highest achievements of Western medicine for patients. It is used when the patient has both chambers of the heart failing. The left side takes blood from the left atrium or from the left part of the heart and pumps it throughout the body with such a pumping mechanism. The right side, in turn, pumps it into the lungs,” Milan Luknár, a doctor at the heart failure and transplant department of NÚSCH, explained to television.
In the summer with Kamil, there were almost 50 people on the waiting list for a heart transplant. Kvetka Horváthová also wrote about his story on the social network a year ago.
“When he was 15, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy. Last year, his heart completely failed. My friend Kamil. He is 35 years old, has a beautiful wife, and enjoys a job. And the artificial Berlin heart that keeps it alive. Everywhere he moves, he carries a 12-kilogram backpack on his back, which keeps him alive. And everywhere he carries a smile on his lips and the hope that he will live to receive a transplant. Kamil, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you,” Kvetka wrote during joint pictures in October 2023. You can find them in the gallery below the article.
According to the latest sad news, the young fighter did not get a new heart. “Today, a few minutes after midnight, the greatest warrior and my better half left us after a long and difficult fight in the circle of his closest friends,” Kamil’s devastated wife Petra announced on Instagram, and later added the party.
The man had his fingers crossed by a number of Slovaks who will definitely want to say goodbye. The terrible news also reached the presenter. “Rest in peace my friend” joined Kvetka and shared his photo as a tribute to his memory. You can find it in the gallery.
