Iraqi boy gets bovine heart valve

Israeli surgeon Sagi Assa from Save A Child’s Heart worked together with his former mentor Dr Stephan Schubert from Germany to implant an artificial heart valve into 11-year-old Iraqi-Kurdish boy Marwan Ghazi Ali. The valve was made from the jugular vein of an Australian cow.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/German-and-Israeli-doctors-partner-on-Iraqi-childs-heart-surgery-490163

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