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Transplant patient gets heart-to-heart.(News)

Article from: Sunday Tribune (South Africa) Article date: September 9, 2007

LONDON: Three months to the day after the transplant that saved her life, Jennifer Sutton had a close encounter with her old heart.

The 23-year-old described the moment she was reunited with the organ, on display at the Wellcome Collection in London, as "slightly surreal, but amazing".

Sutton agreed to display the organ at The Heart exhibition to raise awareness of donations and restrictive cardiomyopathy, the disease that would have killed her.

She said her first reaction when she saw her heart was, "yuk".

"It ...

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