All Posts Tagged With: "Heart Surgery"

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22
Oct
2009

UPDATE: 25 Weeker Fitted With An External Pacemaker

In July, we introduced you to Taylor Gardner. This amazing little girl was born at 25 weeks weighing just 540 grams.
A 19 week ultrasound revealed Taylor had a complete heart block found in 1 in 200,000 babies.

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31
Aug
2009

Miracle Baby Born With Heart Outside His Chest

A five-day old baby is being described as a miracle after he survived being born with heart outside of this chest.

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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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6
Aug
2008

High Court Rejects Couple’s Plea To Abort 25-Week-Old Fetus

An Indian court on Monday rejected a woman’s petition to abort her 25-week-old fetus with a congenital heart problem, saying the law does not permit such late-term abortions.
Last month, Niketa Mehta, 31, her husband, Haresh, and their gynecologist, Dr. Nikhil Dattar, petitioned the court to allow an abortion.
During the 20 week ultrasound it [...]

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22
Jul
2008

UPDATE: Baby Waiting For Heart Surprises Doctors By Surviving Off Life Support

Two weeks ago, we introduced you to Theo Davis, the little boy born with half a heart. At that time he had already undone five operations, but was still given just two weeks to live without a new organ.
After surprising doctors by breathing on his own earlier this month, the little fighter survived an operation [...]

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14
Jul
2008

Baby With Heart Defect Finds Family After Being Put Up For Adoption Twice

Beautiful Emma Grace is seen here in this picture sucking on a pacifier while being held by her new mom.

This amazing baby is now part of a family that loves her. Sadly, her life wasn’t always this stable.
Born two weeks early on Monday, March 24 at 6:18 p.m., Emma weighed 4 pounds, 7 ounces, [...]

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Jul
2008

Baby Waiting For Heart Surprises Doctors By Surviving Off Life Support

Theo Davis, from Keswick, Cumbria, has hyperplastic left heart syndrome, which means he was born with half a heart.
He has had five operations and been given just two weeks to live without a new organ.
He recently amazed doctors by coming off his life support machine and breathing on his own, giving him more [...]

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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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Apr
2008

UK Doctors Outfit 5 Day Old Baby With Pacemaker

Liam King, is recovering and at home after being fitted with a pacemaker. The 5 day old baby is one of the youngest patients to be given a pacemaker.
Doctors told his parents that without the operation to correct his heartbeat, Liam might live for just 15 minutes.
Father Andy said his return from hospital was [...]

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Mar
2008

Pioneering Surgery Cures The Boy Whose Blood Flowed The Wrong Way

Three year old Alec Hutchinson, was born with a rare condition which caused the blood vessels in his heart were plumbed in back to front.
Only a handful of babies every year are born with the condition, which is called Congenitally Corrected Transposition.
In sufferers, the artery taking oxygenated blood to the body, the aorta, is [...]

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