Girl has transplant reversed
Updated on 13 April 2006
A 12-year-old girl is believed to have become the first UK patient to have her heart transplant reversed.
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It had never been done before, but surgeons had a hunch it would work.
They left a sick girl's ailing heart in her body for 10 years, while a donor heart took over.
When this failed, they reconnected her original heart. Today 12-year-old Hannah Clark from South Wales is feeling fine.
