‘I was told my heart might fail within a year’
BBC journalist Chris Slegg explains the impact of learning he might need a heart transplant aged 43. …
After seeking second opinions from Bristol Heart Institute and the Mayo Clinic in the USA, my cardiologists decided to try to delay, or hopefully entirely avert, the need for a transplant by carrying out a procedure rarely performed on adults. Indeed, I’ve been told I’m likely to be the first adult in the world to have undergone this procedure as late as this into heart failure.
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