Heart surgeon death

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 1999 shows Juro Wada, a professor emeritus at Sapporo Medical University who performed Japan's first heart transplant surgery in 1968. Wada died of pneumonia at age 88 on Feb. 14, 2011.

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