Baby Survives With Heart Outside Of Chest28 Jan 2013-nbsp;-nbsp;-nbsp;
Audrina Cardenas has certainly defied odds as she was finally being discharged from Texas Children's Hospital. The 3 month old baby was born with an extremely rare condition called ectopia cordis, which means she was born with her heart outside of her chest. She received her life-saving surgery in October and is now at home.
Ectopia cordis is a very uncommon congenital malformation which results in the heart developing either partially or completely outside the body, it only affects approximately eight in every million babies. Sadly, most infants who are born with the condition die within the first few days of life.
A multidisciplinary team of surgeons carried out a very risky surgical procedure to repair Audrina's heart immediately after she was born. She proved to be quite the survivor as she came out of the operation alive and well.
Dr. Charles D. Fraser, surgeon-in-chief at Texas Children's Hospital and professor of surgery and pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), said:
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