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We are happy to save the life of a stranger
(Daily Express 25/08/2009)
AT JUST five weeks old Louisa McGregor-Smith was given a short time to live. A virus had damaged her heart and only a transplant could save her. Louisa was one of the lucky ones. Within days of being put on the urgent waiting list a matching organ was found. According to NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), more than 10,000 people are waiting for a life-saving transplant operation and every day three will die waiting.
Heart transplant girl feeling 'brilliant'
(The Scotsman 18/08/2009)
A TEENAGE girl who had a heart transplant after initially deciding she did not want the operation is feeling "brilliant", it was reported yesterday. It emerged last month that Hannah Jones had undergone the life-saving surgery. She told doctors in November she did not want a transplant, having had enough of hospital treatment following years of ill-health. But the 14-year-old, who suffered leukaemia as a young child, changed her mind after reportedly suffering kidney failure.
Transplant for heart refusal girl
(BBC 29/07/2009)
A terminally ill girl who won the right to refuse a heart transplant has now had the operation, the BBC understands. Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has confirmed Hannah Jones, 14, from Marden, near Hereford, is a patient. In a statement, the hospital said she had been admitted but refused to comment further on her case. Hannah, whose heart has been weakened by medication for leukaemia, is thought to have been transferred to the hospital on Tuesday night.
Neighbouring kids make medical history with heart transplant ops
(Mirror 24/06/2009)
They might be too young to know it but these two cuties have made medical history - and become best pals in the process. Patrick Skinner and Ellen Walsh are the first two children in Britain to have heart transplants in the same hospital on the same day. Three-year-old Patrick and Ellen, 14 months live just two streets apart. But neither family knew about the other until a twist of fate found them sharing a ward and a cardiac team dedicated to saving their lives.
'Heart trick' - one family could get three transplants
(BBC 21/04/2009)
A Scottish family could become the first in the UK to undergo three heart transplants. Stephen Moffat, 12, from Cleland, Lanarkshire, and Rachael, 7, were the first siblings to have transplants for a hereditary heart problem. Now their father, Andrew, 45, requires the operation for the same condition (restrictive cardiomyopathy).
Parents of UK's youngest surviving heart transplant patient speak out
(World health - EU Monitor 18/02/2009)
The parents of the UK's youngest surviving heart transplant patient yesterday spoke for the first time about their daughter's life-saving operation. Sarah Cox was just 23 days old and on the brink of death when a donor heart was found from abroad. Now a healthy two-year-old, Sarah is the youngest child to have had a heart transplant in the UK who has survived.
Transplant centre gets all-clear
(BBC 26/11/2008)
A review into the deaths of four transplant patients at a world-renowned north London heart hospital has found no evidence of any wrongdoing. The review of Harefield Hospital's transplant programme began after the consecutive deaths between July and September this year. The findings state that the patients at Harefield were high risk and their deaths could not have been prevented.
Trial to boost transplant success
(BBC 17/11/2008)
In the UK last year only 135 of 500 hearts recommended for transplants were still usable by the time they reached the operating table. LiDCO, in Cambridge, has made the hemodynamic monitor, to show the levels of fluid and drugs needed to re-start a heart without irreparably damaging it. Scientists involved with the trial say it should improve organ yield by 75%.
Sex-matched transplants 'better'
(BBC 13/11/2008)
The chance of long-term survival after a heart transplant rises if the person getting the new heart is the same sex as the donor, researchers say. The US study of more than 18,000 operations found death rates rose by a fifth above average levels if it was a woman who had received a man's heart. Same-sex transplants had lower rates of rejection over the next few years.
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