00:00A life-saving medical first in London has helped reverse heart failure in a young boy
00:05being treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Doctors say a child has become the first in
00:10the UK to receive an anglioplasty for heart failure, a procedure usually used in adults.
00:17Elliot Atkins, now seven years old, was diagnosed with a rare condition and severe heart failure
00:23as a baby, and his family were told he may not survive without urgent intervention.
00:28Specialists in London used a series of procedures to widen narrowed blood vessels, stabilising
00:35his condition and making major surgery possible. Doctors say the treatment has since been used
00:40in other children with complex heart conditions.
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