Hospital succeeds in heart surgery on 2-month-old boy

MATSUE, Japan - Yoshifumi Fujimoto (R), a heart surgeon at Shimane University Hospital, attends a press conference on Oct. 8, 2014, in the western Japan city of Izumo. The hospital team successfully performed arterial switch operations on the heart of a 2-month-old baby who was suffering from a serious congenital heart disease.

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