Nine-year-old Afghan boy in critical condition after heart valve surgery
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TORONTO (CP) - A nine-year-old boy from Afghanistan who came to Canada to have life-saving surgery was in critical condition after undergoing heart valve surgery Friday.
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Connor Geddes was 13 days old when surgeons gave him a new heart that didn't match his blood type &#151; deliberately.
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CHARKHAI, Bangladesh -- The village doctor's diagnosis was dire: Marium needed immediate surgery to replace two heart valves.
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A six-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after suffering head injuries in a road accident.
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Using a piece of Gore-Tex fabric to make their repairs, doctors performed corrective surgery on a baby born with his heart outside his chest, and said Wednesday that the youngster should be able to lead a close-to-normal life.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, underwent angioplasty following a serious heart attack.
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A 7-year-old boy is in critical condition after being found hanging by his shirt collar from a clothing hook in a charter school's dressing room, and police tried to determine Thursday whether it was an attack or an accident.
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Fourteen-year-old Travis Marcus left the Arkansas Children Hospital Thursday after giving his surgeon a bear hug. Macon is the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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It took a record nine months in intensive care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, but a Kansas man will be back home Saturday, thanks to an experimental heart-assist device that keeps his heart pumping.
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Giving a bear hug to his surgeon and a thumbs-up to other hospital staff, a 14-year-old boy went home for Christmas - the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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HOLON, Israel  - Her lower lip quivering with every breath, Hala Ketnani, a 10-month-old girl from Gaza, sleeps beneath an oxygen hood in an Israeli intensive care unit as she recovers from heart surgery.
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The heart of children cura bimbi cardiopatici in loro paesi
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Indonesia's ailing former president Suharto has pneumonia and is developing the life-threatening blood infection sepsis leading to a further deterioration in his health, his doctors said on Tuesday. Doctors have been battling to save the 86-year-old former strongman, who ruled the vast Southeast Asian nation for more than three decades, since he was put on a ventilator after suffering multiple organ failure on Friday.
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An American soldier has been critically injured in an insurgent attack on his vehicle in Afghanistan that also wounded two other US soldiers.
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The 36-year-old South Asian immigrant didn't seem like a typical candidate for a heart attack. He was lean, a nonsmoker and had healthy blood pressure, although his cholesterol levels hovered just above normal. But when his chest pain lasted for an hour, he headed for the emergency room.
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Less than five months after he arrived in Canada for life-saving heart surgery, 10-year-old Djamshid Popal is ready to go back to Afghanistan.
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Ailing former dictator Suharto has developed sepsis, a potentially deadly blood infection, and the 86-year-old's heart became unstable Tuesday