An artificial heart the size of a pinky finger kept a 16-month-old baby
alive for nearly two weeks while he waited for a heart transplant.
An Italian heart surgeon holds a tiny titanium pump,
the world's smallest artificial heart, which was implanted
in a baby, at the Bambino Gesu' Hospital in Rome May 24, 2012.
REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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