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London, (UPT via Xinhua)— Peter Scott, a 51 - year - old printer from northern England, has been given his second of two “piggy -back” hearts after removing of his own heart, the Hare filed Hospital said last week.
The hospital near London, which is specially good at heart operation, said Scott was in a satisfactory condition.
Doctors first linked Scott’s heart with the heart of a 13year - old girl in a “piggy -back” transplant (移植)to make up this own heart a week before, the hospital director David Blythe said.
Both beat well in step for four days until half - solid blood formed in a man - made valve (瓣膜)fixed in Scott’s own heart last year, Blythe said.
MOSCOW(Agencies via Xinhua)- A Russian Ilyushin62 airliner left for West Africa suddenly fell down shortly after take - off here, killing everyone on board.
It is not known how many passagers the 182 - seat aircraft was carrying when it went downward quickly to the ground just 10 kilometres from Sheremetyevo Airport.
But west African newspapers said the plane, which was heading for Sierra Leone, was about half full.
An official from Moscow’s Botkin Institute Hospital said, “No one could have been still alive in the accident. ”
“The accident was so serious, so horrible, that we did not need to give medical attention to anyone.”
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