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A medical first helps baby girl beat odds

Stent is implanted before her birth

Jay and Angela VanDerwerken and their daughter, Grace, were surrounded by staff at Children's Hospital Boston yesterday as the family prepared to return home.
By Scott Allen
Globe Staff / January 28, 2006

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(Correction: Because of a photographer's error, a caption in Saturday's City & Region section on a group photo of the medical team that performed a pioneering prenatal heart procedure incorrectly described them as staff from Children's Hospital Boston. Members of the Brigham and Women's Hospital staff were also on the team and in the photo.) (Full article: 555 words)

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