Ectopia cordis is an extremely rare condition in which babies are born with their hearts partially or fully outside their bodies. It tends to go hand-in-hand with other birth defects in the heart ...

Their doctor diagnosed their daughter Kieran with ectopia cordis, a rare condition where ... had a vivid understanding of Kieran's anatomy in advance, which meant they could plan the surgery ...

Born with an extremely rare heart condition known as Ectopia cordis, Christopher's heart was exposed outside of his chest. His doctors said it is a condition so rare that out of every 1 million ...

The first case labeled as ectopia cordis—at least, the first case Tuck could find—was a child born in 1706 in Madrid, Spain. Another case study, published in BMJ Case Reports in 2012 ...

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 ...

The unnamed newborn has ectopia cordis, which causes the vital organ to be either partially or fully outside of the chest. The baby was delivered at a hospital in Haryana, north India.

Vanellope Hope Wilkins made medical history in 2017 when she was born with her heart outside her body—a condition so rare it's described by experts as "one of a kind." Recently, she underwent a ...

The UK baby had thoracic ectopia cordis, which meant her heart had formed outside her chest. Vanellope was given a 10 percent chance of living after birth. Still parents, Naomi and Dean Wilkins ...

She was diagnosed in the womb with ectopia cordis in which the heart is located either partially or totally outside of the chest. Her parents were told there was "next to no hope" when the ...

Described by experts as "one of a kind", Vanellope had three operations to place her heart back in her chest due to an extremely rare condition called ectopia cordis. The hospital where she was ...

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. She is now on ...