But as he turned 15 his condition deteriorated and a heart transplant operation was carried out last month.
She said after the initial transplant operation, a further CT scan returned abnormal results and so another operation was carried out.
The initial transplant operation was successful, but he contracted MRSA following surgery, and died after two further operations to clean up wounds.
It was then re-implanted, just as in a normal liver transplant operation.
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In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant operation in Cape Town on Louis Washkansky, who lived for 18 days.
The original transplant operation took place because Hannah had cardiomyopathy, which made her heart double in size and risk giving out within a year.
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In 1993, Gordon Nicholas, who suffers from kidney failure, was told to rush to hospital - he had the chance of a life-transforming transplant operation.
They practiced face transplant operation on cadavers several times.
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Mr Nadey Hakim, a surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in London who has taken part in a hand transplant operation in France, said any patient who undergoes the procedure would experience rejection.
One of those arrested in July's extraordinary New Jersey roundup of mayors, legislators and others for alleged money laundering and corruption was a Brooklyn man accused of trying to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant operation.
Sometimes the heroic medical interventions he describes are futile: A desperately sick illegal immigrant a Guatemalan woman who arrived in the U.S. with a parasitic disease affecting her heart is given a heart transplant, but after the operation she dies anyway.
The doctors have ruled out a single hand transplant on the grounds that any operation would be of more benefit to a person without any hands.
Lomu faced life in a wheelchair if a kidney transplant was not performed, so underwent the operation.
The UK's first baby heart transplant survivor has celebrated a quarter of a century since her historic operation.
Even now, when kidney transplantation has become routine, about 15% of transplant patients lose their new kidneys this way within a year of the operation.
Thirty-two have already been weaned off cyclosporine one year after transplant, and the rest will also stop taking the drugs once they have reached the anniversary of their operation.
Three months before the transplant, stem cells were removed from Claudia's nose and hip in preparation for the six-hour operation that would change her life.
But the operation in February to remove Hannah's donor heart has meant she is no longer classed as a transplant patient to compete for medals at the British Transplant Games which are being held in Bath in August.
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