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Delicate Heart Surgery Saves Baby Given Zero Chance of Survival

Contributed by Jai A. Dennison| 20 February, 2005 17:57 GMT

Tiny Jerrick De Leon had zero chance of survival, doctors said, unless open-heart surgery could be performed on the newborn. The trouble was, the procedure had never before been accomplished on a baby Jerrick's size. Born 13 weeks early, his heart was the size of a small grape.

On February 6, at 1-week-old, Jerrick became what surgeons at Lucile Packard Children

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