MATSUE, SHIMANE PREF. – A team at Shimane University Hospital has successfully performed arterial switch operations on the heart of a 2-month-old baby who was suffering from a serious congenital heart disease, the state-run institution said on Wednesday.
The prognosis for the baby, whose condition had left his main arterial blood valve and pulmonary artery reversed, is good. He is expected to leave the hospital by the weekend.
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