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A Magical Dissolving Heart Implant Just Helped a Brave Teenager Heal!
Photo: Navy Medicine / Unsplash
An amazing 14-year-old girl named Lillie has become the first person in the UK to get a special heart support that slowly melts away like sugar once her heart is strong again. This high-tech implant holds her blood vessels open and then disappears completely so she doesn't need another operation to remove it. Isn't it incredible that we can now use disappearing medicine to fix a broken heart?
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Newsround (BBC)
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