Photo: Tineke Dixon with consultant transplant cardiologist Phil Rees at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1988
A woman who described herself as a "congenital disaster zone" has been reunited with medical staff who performed a heart and lung transplant on her 25 years ago.
Tineke Dixon had two holes in her heart and Eisenmenger syndrome, which caused her lungs to start failing.
She was not expected to live beyond her teenage years but is now a 41-year-old married doctor living in Exeter, Devon.
Her "rare" transplant was carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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