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Given that the patient lived 80 years with this congenital condition without right atrial or right ventricular enlargement or significant pulmonary hypertension, the decision was made to manage medically.

“We can’t just throw everybody born early into one ‘premature’ category. Using biological measurements collected at birth, we were able to come up with a new definition for prematurity that is based on the actual outcomes of these babies.” – Nima Aghaeepour, PhD