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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Ella Pickover

Boy, 7, has life saved after UK-first procedure reverses heart failure

A boy’s life has been saved after he became the first child in the UK to have an angioplasty for heart failure – a procedure usually reserved for adults with heart conditions.

Elliot Atkins’s parents were told that without action he would be unlikely to survive after he was diagnosed with heart failure and a “one in a million” condition called middle aortic syndrome.

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