Boy with exposed heart receives treatment in Shanghai
(newsphoto)
Updated: 2006-06-20 22:48
Chen Jiakun, a seven-year-old boy from east China's Shandong province yawns
as his exposed heart is seen 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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