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The family of the UK’s youngest ever blood transfusion recipient have said how “lucky” they are as they expressed their “gratitude” to the donors whose specialist blood is used the most for one of the rarest transfusions – given when a baby is still in the womb.

Doctors think Arthur Ransom is the youngest patient in the UK to have had a blood transfusion, delivered when his mother was just 16 weeks pregnant.