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Miracle transplant patient whose organs were 'kept alive in box' set for dream wedding

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A man who lived every day fearing it could be his last was saved by a revolutionary double transplant – and he can now go ahead with his dream wedding next month.

Aaron Green, 25, is the first person in the world to have a replacement heart and lungs from a donor whose heart had already stopped.

He is also the first to have two organs transplanted at the same time using a heart and lung kept “alive” in a revolutionary box.

The organs were squeezed into the machine – designed for one set of organs – as medics ran out of options. The device pumped oxygenated blood into both organs for the groundbreaking procedure – so the heart was still beating and lungs “breathing”.

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