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Tiny Infant Survives Surgery On Grape-Sized Heart

February 20, 2005

Stanford, California - Doctors at Stanford University say the prognosis is good for a premature baby who became the world's smallest infant to survive a type of open-heart surgery.

The infant weighed only 24 ounces at birth, and his heart was no bigger than a grape.

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