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10
Feb
2009

Baby Born With Heart On His Stomach

A Chinese baby has stunned doctors after he survived being born with his heart on his stomach.
Surgeons said the boy would only live for less then a week after he was born in eastern China.
Now, more than a month later, the baby is home with his parents who are trying to raise $70,000 for [...]

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14
Jun
2008

UPDATE: Pacemaker Baby Survives MRSA Superbug

In April, I introduced you to an amazing baby that was outfitted with a pacemaker at just 5 days old.
Liam King, who was born at 34 weeks gestation, was diagnosed with a heart block, a condition which affects electrical signals sent to the heart to control the heartbeats.
Because Liam is so small, the pacemaker [...]

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Apr
2008

Amazing Baby Defies Odds After Being Born With Only Half A Heart

When Zephan Bjorkman arrived at 29 weeks gestation, doctors didn’t believe that he would survive.
At birth he was found to have a “double inlet left ventricle with malposed great vessels,” which means that his right ventricle, one of the heart’s two pumping chambers, never developed, leaving the left ventricle to work for both.
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12
Jan
2008

UK Toddler Surviving With An Artificial Heart

Ollie Drew is just 14 months old, but he is already making a name for himself around the world. He is currently the only person in the UK to be kept alive with an artificial heart.
The toddler has been attached to the Berlin Heart for 67 days at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. The left [...]

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Aug
2007

Amazing Baby Lives 120 Days With Artificial Heart

Every time I find an amazing baby story I think that it can’t be topped, somehow another amazing baby comes along and shows us that they have what it takes to survive through ANYTHING!
Jack Vellam, 13 months old, left hospital today after undergoing a life-saving treatment in which he was kept alive [...]

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29
Jun
2007

Baby Zoe Get’s Heart Transplant

Baby Zoe was placed at the top of the European heart transplant list after suffering six heart attacks and now she has a doner.

Zoe Chambers, 18 months, from Hull, had a heart transplant at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital earlier yesterday.

A hospital spokeswoman said the transplant had gone quite well and Zoe was in a stable condition.

“We [...]

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13
Feb
2007

Mismatched Hearts Save Babies’ Lives

Due to the fact that infant hearts are so rare, doctors have gotten creative with the way that they approach the organ transplant.

Connor Geddes was 13 days old when surgeons gave him a new heart that didn’t match his blood type — deliberately.

Connor, now 11 months old and thriving, is one of several dozen [...]

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