Doctors bring a DEAD heart back to life using pioneering box that can keep the organ beating for up to 8 HOURS

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A desperately ill man’s life has been saved after doctors gave him a transplant using a ‘dead’ heart they had brought back to life.

Medics used a pioneering piece of technology dubbed a ‘heart in a box’ which can keep a heart preserved and beating for up to eight hours. 

Surgeons at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester carried out the successful transfer to Anthony Anderson. 

The 58-year-old, from Swinton, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy – a disease of the heart muscle – which left him in intensive care and he was placed on the urgent transplant list. 

Speaking after the operation, Anthony said: ‘When I got the call I felt very emotional – really happy, but of course sad that someone had to die to help me and I will be forever grateful to my donor.’

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