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MADRID (Reuters) – A 1-year-old Spanish girl has become the world’s first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, Madrid’s La Paz hospital said on Tuesday. “The child has now been discharged and is in perfect condition at home with her parents,” it said in a statement. Spain is a global leader in organ transplants, with over 102 of them per million inhabitants performed in 2021, a rate only surpassed by the United States, according to Spanish health ministry data. The infant, Emma, had been diagnosed with intestinal failure when she was just one m…