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Five Year Old Receives New Heart in Houston
Maria Giannaris aged five in Texas Children's Hospital became the world’s second child heart transplant recipient after surgeons implanted a heart from 1-year-old James Dudley Herron who died of brain hemorrhage. The procedure lasted 105 minutes with the donor heart starting immediately.
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Houston
Tex
Maria Giannaris
Hagerstown
Nick A. Giannaris
Texas Children’s Hospital
James Dudley Herron
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Young Herron
Robert Carpenter
Maria
Texas Heart Institute
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Alex Haller
Johns Hopkins
Giannaris
Tessie
Denton 4
Cooley
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn