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Series 6: 5. We Can Rebuild You
Consultant cardiac surgeon Amit Modi is faced with the case of 70-year-old grandmother Jeanette, who is in desperate need of surgery, as her aorta - the body’s biggest artery - is diseased and threatening to rupture.\n\nMeanwhile, consultant spinal surgeons Chris Dare and Steve McGillion have a patient whose conditions are so challenging that they need to operate for over 20 hours across two days to try to give him a better quality of life.
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