{"id":746681,"date":"2026-08-23T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:52:14","slug":"cardiff-baby-gets-life-saving-heart-op-but-needs-a-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746681\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff baby gets life-saving heart op &#8211; but needs a transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Town planner Dylan, 35, told <a href=\"https:\/\/newyddion.s4c.cymru\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newyddion S4C, external<\/a>: &#8220;There was talk of end of life at that point. We&#8217;re so pleased he&#8217;s on the Berlin Heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It means he can come off the drugs which have been sedating him. Since then, he&#8217;s a completely different baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s smiling, he&#8217;s responding to us. Before now, he&#8217;s just been a small baby lying on a bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Solicitor Catrin said, since the operation, it was like &#8220;having our baby back&#8221; for the couple, who have two other children, Caio, five, and Gruff, and that Macs had been &#8220;absolutely thriving&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After multiple surgeries, Macs&#8217; Berlin Heart was fitted on 7 August after leaving  Bristol for Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Berlin Heart is a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle-hospitals.nhs.uk\/services\/cardiothoracic-services\/cardiology-2\/heart-failure-clinic\/left-ventricular-assist-device\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ventricular assist device, external<\/a> &#8211; an air-driven pump that sits outside the body and takes over the job of the heart by pumping blood around the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS Blood and Transplant team said 17 of these had been fitted in children across the UK in 2024-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Town planner Dylan, 35, told Newyddion S4C, external: &#8220;There was talk of end of life at that point.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-746681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}