All Posts Tagged With: "Alec Hutchinson"

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Mar
2008

Pioneering Surgery Cures The Boy Whose Blood Flowed The Wrong Way

Three year old Alec Hutchinson, was born with a rare condition which caused the blood vessels in his heart were plumbed in back to front.
Only a handful of babies every year are born with the condition, which is called Congenitally Corrected Transposition.
In sufferers, the artery taking oxygenated blood to the body, the aorta, is [...]

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