A Georgia teenager who was originally denied a place on a list for a heart transplant has now been placed on the list after the hospital re-evaluated his case, ABC News reported.

Anthony Stokes, who has an enlarged heart, was given six months to live, but was denied a spot on the heart transplant list at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, where he has been receiving treatment, for "non compliance."

"I know he will comply with all the rules," Melencia Hamilton, Stokes' mother, said. "He will take his medicine because he knows that is how he has to live."

"Non compliance" usually means the patient has a history of not taking medication properly, unwillingness to follow medical direction or inability to appear at follow-up appointments as scheduled.

"The non-compliance is fabricating, because they don't want to give him a heart," family friend Mack Major told Channel 2 Action News in Atlanta. "This is unacceptable because he must lose his life because of a non-compliance."

Hamilton was afraid her son was denied by non-compliance for having low grades and had been in legal trouble before.

"He was just fighting," Hamilton told ABC News. "Trying to take up, just trying to take up for his brother because somebody was bullying his brother."

Joel Newman, a spokesman for the non-profit group, United Network For Organ Sharing, told Reuters the process of selecting patients to a heart transplant list is very thorough and careful and many factors are taken into consideration.

"There are psychosocial considerations: Does the patient understand the risk, are they likely to follow medication schedules, can they keep up with appointments, can they come to the clinic for regular follow-ups?" he said. "It's a very individual process."

Because of patient confidentiality, Patty Gregory, a hospital spokeswoman, said she could not go into details of the teen's case, but cited a circulation of "misinformation."

"The well-being of our patients is always our first priority. We are continuing to work with this family and looking at all options regarding this patient's health care," Gregory said in a statement. "We follow very specific criteria in determining eligibility for a transplant of any kind."