Wythenshawe Hospital for emergency surgery. She was quickly matched with a donated heart which allowed her to have the major heart transplant in the summer of 1993.Her family was told she had just a five per cent chance of survival following the procedure.
But Deborah, from Rochdale, baffled doctors by living for almost three decades before her health started to deteriorate. She began to bruise easily and often had to use a wheelchair.
Eventually, she started suffering problems with her kidney function. She died aged 52 at Salford Royal Hospital on December 9 last year.
An inquest into her death was opened at Bolton Coroner’s Court on Monday (February 8). Speaking after the hearing, Deborah’s niece, Victoria Hughes, told the Manchester.
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