Natalie's story: The life-prolonging surgery that became a 'death sentence'
A woman left with an incurable brain disease following a NHS operation says she feels like she's "living with a death sentence".
Natalie Bralee-Brett was born with the birth defect spina bifida - but doctors told her mother about a new procedure that could improve and prolong her life.
Instead, medical experts now say that operation - which implanted a graft made from a membrane taken from a dead body into her spine - left Natalie with a rare brain condition called iatrogenic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (ICAA).
How did the NHS end up introducing this procedure and how many others are affected…
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