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Cardiac operation on youngest ever patient
The arrhythmia unit at the Sant Joan de Déu hospital in Barcelona performed a cardiac ablation on a 10-day old infant, this past January 4th - the youngest person to have had this operation worldwide. María was born after only 32 weeks gestation, weighing 1,310 grams. At 28 weeks, doctors monitoring the pregnancy had detected that the fetus’s heart beat at 200bpm, twice the normal rate. Doctor Josep Brugada described the infant’s heart as having a permanent “short-circuit” which needed repairing.
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