July 13th, 2010 
Anila Arshad Six-year-old Alice Hipkiss is now a picture of health but she has lived for for more than seven months with an artificial heart pumping blood around her body to keep her alive.
he was originally feared that Alice, who had been ill almost since birth, was too weak to have the heart implanted but her parents Liz and David, Hipkiss, of Yarnton in Oxfordshire, refused to give up on her.
he lived with the device, called a Berlin Heart, for 228 days – longer than anyone else in Britain.
Alice had been ill almost since birth.The left side of her heart did not work properly, meaning she would eventually need a transplant.
The machine was eventually fitted, to keep her alive by taking up the work of her dangerously weakened heart, while she grew strong enough to have a full heart transplant.
Shortly after the transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in central London, she suffered another setback when she developed cancer due to the strong drugs she was taking. But she beat the cancer and is now enjoying a normal life.
Her father David said she is his ‘dancing princess’.
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