Doctors fix baby's heart with parts of cow

London, Oct. 30 (PTI): A newborn baby born with a rare heart condition has made an amazing recovery after British doctors, in a pioneering surgery, used parts of a cow heart to save his life. Noa Gwilym Pritchard was born on February 10 this year with Holt-Oram syndrome, a genetic disease that affects one person in 100,000. People with the syndrome have abnormally developed bones in their upper limbs and often suffer cardiac problems. Just days after being born, the baby was operated on at Alder Hey Hospital near Liverpool. The surgeons repaired Noa's heart with "both human and bovine parts" and his heart is now "near perfect", the Cambrian News reported. Eight-month-old Noa is now "flourishing" according to his mother, Elen Pritchard. Cow heart valves are occasionally used by surgeons as they have a similar tissue physiology to human valves. Here is another use of a cow to save a life. Would are BJP rather allow the child to die?