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 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy from northern Mexico is hospitalized in Arkansas awaiting a possible replacement for his diseased heart.
Adrian Flores Saucedo and his mother flew to Little Rock by jet from San Antonio, where he had stayed for 60 days at Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas. Residents there raised about $500,000 for the boy, who suffers a viral infection that is eating away at his heart tissue.
"In many children, it just gives you a common cold, but in certain settings, it will cause an inflammation of the heart," said Dr. Elizabeth Frazier, head of the cardiac transplantation program at Arkansas Children's Hospital. "It permanently damages the heart muscle; it actually kills the heart muscle."
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