British surgeons are stunned with how quickly a 12 year-old girl has recuperated after undergoing surgery to remove one of two hearts she had.

The Welsh girl in question has had the transplanted heart removed after nearly 10 years and so far has recovered just fine with her original heart

A 12-year-old heart transplant survivor has had her donated organ removed and her own heart brought back to life after 10 years. Hannah Clark, from Mountain Ash in south Wales, had the first of its kind operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in London, on Feb 20 after her body rejected her new heart.

The complicated procedure was carried out by surgeons advised by Sir Magdi Yacoub, the renowned heart specialist, who came out of retirement at the request of Hannah's parents, Paul and Elizabeth. Sir Magdi performed Hannah's original transplant operation in 1996, when she was two

A 12-year-old British girl has had her heart transplant reversed after hey body rejected a 'piggy-back' heart.

Hannah Clarke, had been suffering from cardiomyopathy before the operation, which made her heart double the size it should have been, and could have resulted in her death

The United States Department of Health and Human Services recommends that every individual consider the possibility of becoming a donor of their organs, tissues, and/or bone marrow.

Every day there are approximately 74 people who receive organ transplants, yet about 18 people die every day as well, waiting for transplants due to shortages of donated organs

hina said on Tuesday it will ban the sale of human organs and strengthen oversight of its transplant market in an apparent attempt to clean up the country's lucrative but laxly regulated transplant business.

Ministry of Health regulations that take effect on July 1 has made it mandatory in China to have written permission from donors and introducing medical standards in an effort to reduce the number of botched operations and improve survival rates