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Rachel Tompkins

Scots woman given transplant from pig and cow finally finds human donor

After surgeons tried to mend her heart with transplants from a pig and cow, brave Robyn Cairney is hoping she will finally find lasting good health thanks to a human donor.

Her long ordeal began in June 2009 when Robyn, originally from Ruchazie in Glasgow, was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect.

Then just 18, her narrowing aortic valve was replaced with a pig’s during four hours of open heart surgery.

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