Please find my brother a new heart, says sister of boy kept alive on artificial heart machine

THE sister of a boy kept alive on an artificial heart machine is pleading for a new organ for him.

Fifteen-month-old Ezra Crawford is the youngest person in Britain using the medical device.

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And three-year-old sister Freya keeps begging doctors: “When can my baby brother come home?”

Mum Bianca, 30, said: “Freya misses him and just wants him to come home.”

The devoted siblings cuddled up at the Newcastle hospital on Christmas Day.

Ezra has been powered by a Berlin Heart since a virus caused his own to enlarge and fail in August last year.

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Bianca and husband Will, 31, from Durham, are waiting for a transplant donor.

She said: “A new heart is the only chance of survival for him now.”

“There are risks of having a stroke whilst on the Berlin Heart machine, so each day is risky for him.

“We just have to hope that a new heart is found in time for him.”

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