Brave Scots boy is world's first to get 'heart in a box' op as mum hails 'dream come true'

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10-year-old.Yet mum Stephanie will never take moments like these for granted as it wasn’t long ago her son was so frail that playing outside like other children was impossible.Aaron was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome – meaning he had only half a heart – and underwent his first life-saving surgery at just a few hours old.At three years old, medics predicted he would not survive the year.Even after Aaron passed that milestone, Stephanie, from Bo’ness, near Falkirk, feared her boy would become one of the 25 per cent of children who die while waiting for a heart transplant.But thanks to pioneering technology, Aaron’s life was saved when he became the first child in the world to receive a “heart in a box” transplant.Cardiac experts.