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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Williams

Transplant patients mark 10 years of pioneering surgery with non-beating hearts

Twenty recipients of heart transplants and their families pose for a photograph at a celebration event at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Heart transplant patients who underwent a pioneering form of surgery have reunited with the medics who saved their lives to mark the 10th anniversary of the first operation of its kind.

A group of 20 patients returned to the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge after undergoing a non-beating heart transplant operation.

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