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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ella Pickover

UNCOVERED: Life saving uk first procedure reverses boys heart failure - The Untold Story

Seven-year-old Elliot Atkins at Westlands Playpark near his home in Colchester (Chris Radburn/PA) - (PA Wire)

A boy’s life has been saved after he became the first child in the UK to have an angioplasty for heart failure – a procedure usually reserved for adults with heart conditions.

Elliot Atkins’s parents were told that without action he would be unlikely to survive after he was diagnosed with heart failure and a “one in a million” condition called middle aortic syndrome.

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