By Press Association 2021
Four-month-old Florentina became the 50th patient to receive a life-saving thymus transplant at GOSH (Family handout courtesy of GOSH/GOSH Charity/PA)
A four-month-old girl has become the 50th patient to receive a life-saving transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) using a pioneering treatment for a rare disorder.
The hospital is one of only two centres in the world to perform thymus transplants – which sees tissue that would otherwise be discarded after heart operations donated to children born without a working thymus gland.
Babies born with the condition, known as athymia, can be at risk of dying within the first two years of life without a transplant.
Baby girl is 50th patient to get pioneering transplant at GOSH
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