A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived after surgery at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who has no breastbone, was delivered three weeks ago by Caesarean ...
Kim Posey speaks with the family and the doctor who performed surgery after the baby's birth. A baby was diagnosed with a birth defect that allows the intestines to spill out of a hole in the ...
But then their local cardiologist sent the case to doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the hopes that they could perform fetal heart surgery to save the baby’s life.
"Previously the baby would have the repair to the defect after birth - but now that we can do the surgery in the womb, the defect is closed a lot earlier so it means there's less damage to the spine.
a baby is born without one or more soft spots. Then, as the brain grows, the skull becomes misshaped. I was shocked to see him after surgery. A drain was coming from his head, and you could still ...
A "miracle" baby who needed open-heart surgery days after she was born has just turned five-years-old. Lexi Boult was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) - a defect that affects the ...