Published December 07, 2010, 12:00 AM


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In this photo taken on Oct. 18, UCLA cardiologist, Daniel Cruz, right, and Younghwa Chang, R.N., perform a heart biopsy on recent beating heart transplant patient Andrea Ybarra, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The transplant was part of a procedure where the donor heart is placed into a special box that feeds it blood and keeps it warm and beating outside the body.

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