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Teenager has dissolvable heart implant fitted in UK first

Sky News UK · 28 August 2026 at 08:52

Teenager has dissolvable heart implant fitted in UK first

A teenage girl has become the first person in the UK to have a dissolvable implant fitted to close a hole in her heart that is around the size of a 10p coin.

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