All Posts Tagged With: "Infant Heart Surgery"

post thumbnail
4
Sep
2009

Doctors Perform Live-Saving Surgery on ‘Half Born’ Baby

Doctors have saved the life of a Texas baby with an amazing surgery that allowed the baby to be half born called the Exit Procedure.

Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail
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.

Lisa | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail
19
Jun
2009

25 Weeker Fitted With An External Pacemaker

In a world first, tiny Taylor Gardner has been fitted with a pacemaker bigger than her fragile body.

Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail
9
May
2009

Amazing Baby Doing Well After Her Heart Was Repaired In The Womb

Called a first in Canada, doctors at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children have successfully repaired a baby’s heart while she was still in the womb.

Lisa | 4 comments | Continued
post thumbnail
12
Apr
2009

Amazing Baby Continues To Fight After Being Taken Of Respirator

Baby Kaylee continued to defy the odds yesterday, breathing on her own for a second day after she was removed from a respirator in anticipation that she would become a heart donor for another infant.

Lisa | 4 comments | Continued
post thumbnail
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 [...]

Lisa | 0 comments | Continued