Is fine and has fully recovered the 16-year-old Welsh entry in the history of medicine when a child received the transplant of a new heart that "worked" with her. Hanna Clark, the daughter of Mountain Ash with two hearts, is no longer in danger: doctors explain that the original heart muscle now works perfectly, with three and a half years after the removal of the "light", which for a certain period of time has worked in tandem with each other. Sir Magdi Yacoub, the pioneer of this technique - which operated when the patient had only two and a half years - was known as "surprised and delighted" by the result, as described on the "Lancet".

The intervention, conducted in 1995, has saved the life of Clark, who suffered from severe cardiomyopathy. The new heart was able to do almost all the work necessary to pump blood into the small, allowing for years the original heart muscle do the rest. Ten years later, however, when the girl was 12 years, have given way to serious health problems associated with immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection of transplanted organ. The little Hannah had been hit by some tumors and had to undergo chemotherapy. For this the doctors have had to reduce the immunosuppressants, a decision that led to the rejection of the donated heart.

At that point, the experts of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London have decided that the only possible option was to disconnect the transplant years before. Discovered, with surprise, that the original heart had recovered enough to do the job without the need for daily therapy. In short, the girl was the protagonist of a full recovery, ensure Magdi Yacoub and Victor Tsang, the two of its surgeons.

According to Magdi Yacoub, the heart of the response of small-Clark has been "magic", as reported by the BBC news online. "We did not expect to recover that, but when he started to do so we were quite happy. A heart that does not do this now works normally. This shows the possibility of recovery of heart muscle, "adds the famous surgeon.

Now the former "little girl with two hearts" is fine and he feels lucky to be alive. "I would not have ever been here today - he says - if it were not for the donor and the surgeons who have operated. I am truly grateful to all. I do not have to take more medicine unless an inhaler for asthma. And I am really excited about the fact that I start working with animals. Before I could not do it. " According to Peter Weissberg, British Heart Foundation, heart donated to the little girl allowed to her to rest and recover. "It is exciting-he stresses the British-as evidence that in some cases, a heart patient has the ability to recover if he can be helped to do so."

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