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Heart Surgery Patient

Photo: Patient exercising after heart surgery

Shortly after receiving an artificial heart, patient Siegfried Streiter takes a turn on a monitored cycle at Germany's Berlin Heart Institute. Such activity not only helps patients gain strength, it also allows physical therapists to assess their post-operative condition and outline an exercise program for home.

Photograph by Robert Clark