Extremely premature infant undergoes heart surgery

A mother holds her daughter on Oct. 30, 2015, at the Okayama University Hospital in the western Japan city of Okayama. The baby was born in March extremely prematurely with Tetralogy of Fallot, a severe congenital heart disease. The hospital said on the same day it conducted successful heart operations on the baby, who will soon be discharged. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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