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Dr. Aijaz Hashmi, Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, shows a video of Amplatzer Muscular VSD Occluder device being placed inside 40-year-old Beaumont resident SanJuanita Amaro’s heart the previous day at Loma Linda University Medical Center Friday, June 13, 2008. The device, about the diameter of a nickel, is used to close holes, known as a ventricular septal defect, in the heart. (Greg Vojtko/The Press-Enterprise)