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 heart is exposed in a ward in a hospital in Shanghai. 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" ,
characterized by defects of the lower sternum, anterior diaphragm andparietal
pericardium, an omphalocoele, partial herniation of the heart through the
diaphragmatic defect and congenital heart disease. [newsphoto]
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