15-minute-old newborn gets pacemaker for heart
Photo credit: AP | Kamneel Maharaj watches as his wife Leanne Maharaj holds their daughter Jaya at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford, Calif. (Jan. 12, 2012)
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The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious.
And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old.
A team of doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital determined the girl born nine weeks premature had only hours to live if they did not perform the surgery.
Jaya, who was diagnosed...
