Baby born with ectopia cordis is doing well at nearly 3 years old In May 2015, Caitlin and Brian Veitz went to their OB-GYN for a routine 20-week appointment. They left completely terrified.

Christopher Wall was born with an extremely rare heart condition known as Ectopia cordis, which left his heart exposed outside of his chest. It's a heart condition so rare that out of every 1 ...

Ectopia cordis occurs when a baby is born with all or part of its heart outside its chest. The condition often co-exists with other heart and abdominal defects. Ectopia cordis affects around one ...

People have been trying to fix ectopia cordis with surgeries since at least 1925, but no one actually succeeded until 1975. Since then, however, the picture for some children has gotten rosier.

A team of medical professionals at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK have successfully delivered Vanellope Hope Wilkins, an ectopia cordis patient who was born with a heart outside her body on ...

Born with ectopia cordis, a rare congenital condition causing her heart to grow outside her body, the baby girl underwent three intensive surgeries to put her heart inside her chest.

Ectopia cordis is a rare condition where the heart is located outside of the chest, either partially or completely. It usually occurs early in pregnancy, during the development of the baby.

“Only eight out of 1 million babies are born with ectopia cordis, and 90 percent of these babies are either stillborn or die within the first 3 days of life,” the hospital’s official blog ...

Vanellope Hope Wilkins was diagnosed with a rare heart defect at just nine weeks’ gestation—a severe malformation that most babies don’t survive. The UK baby had thoracic ectopia cordis ...

Born in the UK with a condition known as ectopia cordis, Vanellope underwent three major operations at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester to place her heart back inside her chest.

English hospital officials said Wednesday that a baby born with her heart outside her body had survived three surgeries to mend her condition. Glenfield Hospital in Leicester said Vanellope Hope ...