5-organ transplant patient gives birth: baby girl

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Fatema Al Ansari of Qatar, left, front, looks on as Dr. Salih Yasin, second from left, adjusts the clothing of her baby Alkadi Alhayal, center, held by her husband Khalifa Alhayal, right, during a news conference at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in Miami. Al Ansari was diagnosed with a condition called mesenteric thrombosis at age 19, causing her abdominal organs to fail. She is the first multivisceral transplant patient in the world to conceive and give birth. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)MIAMI (AP) — A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth.

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