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These four youngsters are alive today largely thanks to ground-breaking technology - the 'heart in a box', or the organ care system - which allowed them to undergo life-saving heart transplants.
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Child heart transplants: Record year for new-style operations By Anna Collinson & Rachael Buchanan Health correspondent and medical producer Published media captionFourteen-year-old Freya Heddington was one of the first recipients - and says she's "ecstatic" Two UK hospitals have teamed up to offer a novel type of heart-transplant service for children, reducing waiting times for the life-saving operations. In the programme, so-called "non-beating donor hearts" are revived to give to teenage recipients. Freya Heddington, 14, from Bristol, was one of the first to get one, waiting just two month...
Staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal Papworth Hospital collaborated on the breakthrough, which saved the lives of six youngsters.
Staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Royal Papworth Hospital saved the lives of six youngsters with the breakthrough treatment