The emotional moment a young girl from Ohio told her dad she was going to get a long-awaited donor heart was captured in a heartwarming video.

Footage shared by Cleveland Clinic Children's shows Ava Cooper announcing the good news from her hospital bed, after a cardiologist whispers it in her ear.

"Hi daddy! I am getting a heart," Cooper said.

"It's the moment the 11-year-old and her family had been waiting more than 200 days in the hospital for," the clinic said in a statement.

According to the hospital, Cooper was born with multiple heart defects and had four open-heart surgeries by the time she turned five.

She was put on a transplant list in September 2024.

The successful surgery was completed in March and she was able to return home after several months in the hospital, and has

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