Youngest baby on UK transplant waiting list gets new heart

Eight-week-old Charlie Douthwaite, born with half a heart, has life-saving nine-hour operation in Newcastle

The youngest patient on the UK’s transplant waiting list has had a life-saving heart operation.

A Europe-wide appeal had been launched for Charlie Douthwaite, an eight-week-old baby born with half a heart. The child had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition that leaves the left side of the organ underdeveloped.

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