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“We always thought he would need a transplant.  Then in June and July his heart started recovering, it was beating without the machine and they told us he would not need one.  I feel so lucky.  I have gone from having the chance to turn his machine off to seeing him in his cot, happy and laughing.”  Daniel's Mum

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congenital heart disease

Heart or circulatory conditions that are present from birth.

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Cardiothoracic Services (Heart and Lung)

Children's Heart Unit

Children's Heart UnitThe Freeman Hospital’s Paediatric Cardiothoracic Unit is the only unit in the UK able to offer all forms of heart treatment, regardless of age, under one roof.  We have a wide range of experts working together in multidisciplinary teams to deliver outstanding care.  Our results are second to none in the UK but we are as proud of the quality of our care, as we are of the success of our procedures.

 

Freeman Hospital has led the way in the UK in providing end stage heart failure treatment for infants and children. We carried out the UK’s first successful infant heart transplant in 1987 and were recently the first in the world to enable a young baby to survive (for four months) with an artificial heart, whilst the baby’s own heart recovered. 

 


Expert care for our youngest and most vulnerable

Most of our patients come from the North of England, but patients are referred from all parts of the UK and Ireland for cardiopulmonary transplantation (one of only two units in the UK) , ECMO (one of only four units in the UK), life support, heart rhythm treatment and congenital heart disease.

Our specialist services include:

  • cardiology
  • cardiac surgery
  • respiratory disease
  • paediatric critical care
  • anaesthesia. 
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