select search filters
briefings
roundups & rapid reactions
before the headlines
Fiona fox's blog
Speakers:
Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub, Imperial College London & Heart Science Centre, who performed the original operation
Dr Victor Tsang, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London (who performed the second operation)
Dr Bill Summerskill, Executive Editor, The Lancet
Hannah Clark, who had a donor heart grafted onto her own after suffering heart failure as a baby, has made a full recovery. After a decade, the donor heart was removed as her own heart had recovered sufficiently to operate on its own. Three and a half years after this second operation, Hannah’s full story is told in a Lancet article and featured in this Lancet briefing.