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698 beads tell the story of baby’s heart transplant
Liby Peterson with her “Heart Beat” bunny. Just one week before her heart transplant, her original heart’s beat was recorded in the bunny. Courtesy photo

STS member Dr. Pirooz Eghtesday, chief of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery and co-director of the heart center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, saves an infant patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome by performing a very tricky heart transplant operation.

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