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Miami: Using a piece of Gore-Tex fabric to make their repairs, doctors performed corrective surgery on a baby born with his heart outside his chest, and said that the youngster should be able to lead a close-to-normal life.
Naseem Hasni underwent surgery to put his heart inside his chest hours after being delivered by Caesarean section on October 31 at Holtz Children's Hospital.
He remained in a critical but stable condition on Wednesday.
"He's not going to be able to play certain kinds of sports where a blow to the sternum to you and me wouldn't be a problem, but to him it would be," said Dr Eliot Rosenkranz, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Miami hospital.
"So I think some competitive sports are going to be out. But he's going to be able to participate in other sorts of activities.
"Certainly the goal is as normal a childhood as he can achieve," he added.
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