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Baby Chi-hoi battles potentially fatal blood clots as wait for life-saving heart transplant goes on in Hong Kong

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A critically ill Hong Kong baby who will die without a heart transplant has had emergency surgery to remove potentially fatal blood clots. The update on the condition of 13-month-old Hui Chi-hoi, who suffers from a rare genetic heart defect, came after his parents made an emotional plea for help to find an organ donor earlier this month. Chi-hoi has restrictive cardiomyopathy, or RCM, which has led to his heart and other organs failing. His brother, who also had the defect, died at the age of...

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