Breakthrough as girl, 3, survives with artificial heart - The Guardian 19th January 2008

A three year-old girl has become the first in the world with a complex heart condition to be fitted with an artificial heart and survive. Abigail Hall was born with a severe heart defect which meant that only one chamber of her heart was working. The girl from Glasgow spent her first years of life in and out of hospital. She underwent corrective surgery at the Diana, Princess of Wales children's hospital in Birmingham. In spite of medical efforts, her heart began to fail last year and doctors decided her only chance was a heart transplant. But while waiting for a donated heart to become available, she would have died if surgeons had not decided to fit a Berlin heart - an artificial mechanism designed to support the functioning of a failing heart.

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