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Armenian surgeons operate on baby girl weighing only 630 grams

July 1, 2018  11:16

A team of Armenian surgeons headed by Gagaik Heboyan operated on a newborn girl weighing only 630 grams.

The surgery was conducted at intensive care unit of Yerevan-based Research Center of Maternal and Child Health Protection.

On June 26 the surgeons conducted ligation of a patent arterial duct in a newborn girl with a birth weight of 630 grams. The surgery was successful, baby girl is in a stable condition.

This is a patient with the lowest ever weight that underwent a surgery in Armenia.

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