Published Date:
11 March 2010
A ten-year-old girl from Kirk Hallam born with a rare heart condition faces life changing surgery this week.
Laura Johnson was born with two heart's chambers the wrong way round, a condition known as congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries.
Ladywood Primary School pupil, Laura, will have the eight hour operation at Birmingham Children's Hospital today.
It is believed that the condition is so rare that surgeons have only ever performed the procedure 50 times.
Her family have been told that without the operation Laura could die within a decade.
Laura has a leaking valve and the two pumping chambers in her heart are the wrong way round.
During the procedure, surgeons will re-route the blood, swapping her arteries around.
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Last Updated:
11 March 2010 11:55 AM
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Location:
Ilkeston
