Chen Jiakun, a seven-year-old boy from east China's Shandong province stares at his exposed heart as his father looks on in a local hospital's ward in Shanghai June 20, 2006. Chen is in danger because his heart is only protected by his skin. According to the hospital, the boy is also suffering five other heart diseases called "Cantrell's pentalogy" , a rare syndrome characterized a deficiency of the anterior diaphragm, a midline supraumbilical abdominal wall defect, a defect in the diaphragmatic pericardium, congenital intracardiac abnormalities, and a defect of the lower sternum. [newsphoto]

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