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Kristy Dawson

County Durham toddler who has spent almost half of her life in hospital receives a new heart

A toddler who who has spent almost half of her life in hospital has now received a new heart.

For the last 14 months, little Beatrix Adamson-Archbold has been waiting at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle for a heart transplant.

The two-year-old fell ill with heart failure in May last year and has been kept alive by a Berlin Heart. The machine pumped blood around her body and kept her heart functioning until she received a new one.

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