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Handout picture shows heart surgeons implanting the world's smallest artificial heart, in a baby, in Rome
Doctors save baby with smallest artificial heart
Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world's smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant. Full story
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