Baby Born With Heart Outside Body Survives Successful Surgery
A baby girl who was diagnosed with a rare life threatening condition called ectopia cordis which doctors said needed to be corrected within hours has been successfully operated on in what is referred to be a UK first.
After a nine week pregnancy scan, baby Vanellope Hope Wilkins was diagnosed with the condition, which had caused her heart and part of her stomach to develop outside her body.
Fate has proved wrong earlier believe by Surgeons at Glenfield Hospital, a specialist children's heart centre in Leicester, who were skeptical that baby Vanellope could be saved.