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An 11-year-old Ohio girl delivered the phone call of a lifetime, as she told her dad she was finally getting the heart transplant she'd been waiting for.

Ava Cooper, who was born in 2014 with several heart defects, underwent her first open-heart surgery at just 6 days old , SWNS reported.

Despite these treatments, her health took a turn in May 2024 when a sinus infection spiraled into heart failure.

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Doctors placed Cooper on the transplant list for a new heart, which seemed to be her only chance of survival, per SWNS.

"Heart transplants are recommended for children who have serious heart problems," as stated by Johns Hopkins Medicine. "

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