Heart surgery is Christmas miracle for desperately sick baby who had cardiac arrest

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The parents of a desperately ill baby girl told how Christmas ‘had come early’ after a heart op gave her a vital lifeline. Penelope Greathead needed a mechanical Berlin heart fitted after suffering a cardiac arrest. She has dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition which enlarges the heart, and ultimately will need a heart transplant. Her worried mum Hollie Suff, 33, and dad Jordan Greathead, 34, were told there was no bed available at either of the two UK specialist centres able to fit the Berlin

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