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World-first as NHS saves six children by making 'dead' donor hearts beat again

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The NHS has become the first in the world to have carried out a heart transplant on children by bringing back to life a donor's heart that had stopped beating.

Anna Hadley, is the first of six kids aged 12 to 16 whose lives have been saved by the heart transplant, known as donation after circulatory death (DCD).

DCD was previously only been available to adults but it has for the first time ever become available to children too thanks to a portable organ perfusion system called the TransMedics heart Organ Care System (OCS).

Anna, from Worcester, said she "feels normal again" thanks to the surgery, the Sunday Times reports. Her ordeal started when the teenager and talented hockey player collapsed during a PE class.

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