Surgeons Save Young Boy's Life in UK First Procedure to Reverse Heart Failure

Surgeons save young boy's life in UK first procedure to reverse heart failure

Great Ormond Street Hospital medics used angioplasty to reverse Elliot Atkins's heart failure. There are no other documented cases in the world, meaning he could be the first child ever to be given the intervention

Boy's life saved after being told he would be 'unlikely to survive'

He was the first child in the UK to have the procedure which saved his life

Taunton-born boy's life saved after he became first to have procedure in UK

Elliot Atkin's life was saved after he became the first child in the UK to have an angioplasty for heart failure

Essex boy receives 'UK first' procedure that reverses his heart failure

A young boy from Colchester has defied the odds with a medical first becoming the first child in the UK to receive an angioplasty.

Boy, 7, with '1 in a million' condition is first child to get miracle procedure

Seven-year-old Elliot Atkins was the first child in the UK to have an angioplasty, which involves using a balloon to widen blood vessels near the heart

Boy’s life saved at London hospital as UK-first procedure reverses heart failure

Elliot Atkins’s parents were told that, without action, he was unlikely to survive a ’one in a million’ condition called middle aortic syndrome