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Alistair fee reports. at the age of eight, it was thought lucy was the oldest child in the world to receive a donor heart that didn t match her blood tape. she is able to do everything that other children can, whereas we have never had that. she has never been able to do everything that other children can do. so, this is the heart lung bypass machine. you ve got the artificial heart, the artificial lung, and if we come back up here this is the new addition, which is allowing us to do mismatched heart transplants in more patients than ever before. more transplants thanks to new research here at great 0rmond street hospital means more lives saved. well, traditionally, what we used to do is drain the patient s blood and throw it away and replace it with the times with the times their circulating volume with donated blood and blood products, which can go into litres. what this technology does is allow us to target the particular antibodies that then can cause ....