Youngest transfusion patient 'now chirpy little boy'6 hours agoTanya GuptaSouth East
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Arthur is now "doing great", his mother says

A baby who contracted a virus when he was still in the womb is thought to be the youngest in the UK to receive a life-saving, rare blood transfusion procedure.

Doctors discovered Arthur had caught parvovirus, which led to severe anaemia, a build-up of fluid and heart failure.

Specialists at St George's Hospital in London gave the infant what is known as an intrauterine transfusion (IUT) when he was about the size of an avocado and his mother was 16 weeks pregnant.