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Heart transplant reversed first time, gives Hannah a new life MIL/Agencies, Apr 14, 2006. The life-saving and pioneering operation to reverse Hannah Clark's heart transplant has given the 12-year-old a new lease of life. Surgeons, under the expert guidance of retired Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, removed her donor heart and restarted her dormant one at Great Ormond Street Hospital on February 20 of this year, as per icWales Hannah, who is from Mountain Ash, south Wales, desperately needed the operation as the "piggy-back" donor heart she had inserted at two years of age because of cardiomyopathy, was rejected by her body. The procedure, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom and possibly the world, took less than four hours and Hannah was home within five days. The theory that Hannah's own heart had recovered sufficiently over the last ten years to be able to function as a working organ once again, proved correct. The Mountain Ash Comprehensive school pupil said: "It felt empty when the heart went at first but it is all right now." She now no longer needs to take the strong anti-rejection drugs she had been prescribed for the last ten years. "It has been like a breath of fresh air for her. She is doing a lot more by herself now and she is making me redundant!" In a joint statement, Sir Magdi Yacoub and Mr Victor Tsang of Great of Ormond Street Hospital said: "This is as far as we know the only such case in the UK and may be unique in the world. "Nowadays we have alternative methods to support a failing heart. "The significance of this case may be to encourage us to look at the heart's ability to recover."
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