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 in ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived surgery to insert it back into her chest. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, now three weeks old, was delivered by a team of 50 ...

Doctors feared Christopher Wall, now 33, would not live beyond one day. Aug. 4, 2009— -- Christopher Wall came into this world with all the right parts, except that one of them was in the wrong ...

Distressing pictures show a baby's heart outside his body after he was born with a rare medical condition. The unnamed newborn has ectopia cordis, which causes the vital organ to be either partially ...

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LEICESTER, U.K. -- A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived surgery to insert it back into her chest. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, now three weeks old, was delivered by a team of 50 medical ...

Three-week-old Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who was born with heart outside her body, has become the first baby in the UK to survive ectopia cordis - Representational image Christopher Furlong/Getty Images ...

A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived surgery to insert it back into her chest. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, now three weeks old, was delivered by a team of 50 medical professionals at ...

A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived surgery to insert it back into her chest. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, now three weeks old, was delivered by a team of 50 medical professionals at ...

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 ...