A 6-day old premature baby, Oliver Crawford, has become the youngest infant to receive a heart transplant at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona, US. The hospital said, "The baby remains in hospital and his lungs remain weak but he is doing amazingly well at 6.1 pounds." Oliver was born 7-weeks ahead of schedule with a heart defect which meant his parents did not expect him to survive. The parents were first alerted to the problem after a prenatal exam at 20 weeks ...
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