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Every year, over 8,500 children in Germany are born with a heart defect. Today, their chance of survival is 95 percent. Things were very different 60 years ago. In a very personal review, 60-year-old Peter Frein, together with his former pediatric cardiologist Prof. Hans Carlo Kallfelz, tells how his life as a child with a heart defect and how pediatric cardiology has developed since then.