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Smallest ever artificial heart implanted

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Italian doctors have the smallest ever artificial heart in a man inserted. Got a 16 months old baby instead of her own heart a titanium pump of but 11 grams. The operation was a success and shortly thereafter received the child a donor heart.

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The children's Hospital Bambino Gesù placed the artificial heart in March. ' The child currently makes it good ', left the clinic Monday know.

The baby suffered from a congenital heart defect, cardiomyopathy. Can the heart pumps the blood around less well. The genus and the identity of the infant are not disclosed.