Japanese baby girl in U.S. for heart transplant

Japanese baby girl in U.S. for heart transplant

Yoshiharu Endo (R) and her wife Yuka (L) speak to reporters in Los Angeles on Wednesday Oct. 14 while waiting for their one-year-old daughter Riho to undergo a heart transplant operation at the UCLA Medical Center. Riho, of Wakakusa, Yamanashi Prefecture, suffers from a form of myocardiopathy, a disease that effects the muscular tissue of the heart wall.

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