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Daily Mirror
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Rachel Tompkins

Brit who received heart valves from pig and cow now finally has one from human being

Brave Robyn Cairney has endured having heart valves from a pig, a cow and a person transplanted into her as she fights her way back to health.

The 31-year-old was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect in June 2009, when she was just 18.

She had four hours of open-heart surgery at Golden Jubilee Hospital, in Clydebank, near Glasgow.

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