Health - Google News: 16-month-old becomes recipient of world's smallest artificial heart in Italy - CBS News

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16-month-old becomes recipient of world's smallest artificial heart in Italy - CBS News May 24th 2012, 18:17 CBS News 16-month-old becomes recipient of world's smallest artificial heart in Italy CBS News (CBS News) A 16-month-boy has received the world's smallest artificial heart. Italian doctors implanted the device -- weighing in at 11 grams -- into the infant to give him more time to wait for a heart donor. For comparison, an adult heart weights 900 ... World's smallest heart transplanted into a baby in ItalyGlobalPost Italy doctors save baby with smallest artificial heartChicago Tribune all 39 news articles »

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