caused by the Duchenne MD? Yes. Now this poor boy will have to live another 25 years locked in a body he has no control over. I'm sorry, but that's not life, hell, that's not even existence. That sounds more like, well, Hell.
Having such a disease renders the boy ineligible for a heart transplant, meaning almost certain death without an alternative solution.
Well, duh.
Dr. Amodeo found such an alternative in the form of a 90-gram, fully-robotic heart that took 10 hours to fit inside the boy's left ventricle. It is a permanent solution offering as much as 25 years of life and is powered by a battery worn as a belt."
What could POSSIBLY go wrong, eh?
This being very Catholic Italy, I have my suspicions that this whole exercise is being undertaken out of some perverse familial desire to keep the boy alive long enough for him to sire a male offspring, a la the case of the Boy in the Bubble.