Ectopia Cordis [EC] is an extremely rare birth defect in which the heart is abnormally located either partially or totally outside the chest cavity. Normally the heart is located in the chest cavity ...

One year ago today, baby Audrina Cardenas underwent a six-hour open-heart surgery where a team of heart surgeons, plastic surgeons and general surgeons put her heart back into her body. She was born ...

Ryan Marquiss, 3, is the first child to survive being born with his heart outside of his body, a condition known as ectopia cordis. The Pennsylvania boy was born with half his heart protruding out of ...

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 ...

WARNING: This video contains graphic images that some may find distressing. Vanellope Wilkins was born with ectopia cordis, an extremely rare condition which caused her heart to beat outside her body.

Immediately after Vanellope Hope Wilkins was born, she was put in sterile plastic to protect her heart - which was beating outside her tiny chest. It was a moment that her parents, Dean Wilkins and ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom (WABC) -- Some are calling it a holiday miracle and true story of survival after baby was born with her heart "outside" her body in the United Kingdom. The baby, who has a ...

Baby Hermlata has ectopia cordis, a rare congenital heart disease that affects 8 in 1,000,000 babies, and her mom was shocked to see her heart had developed outside of her body when she gave birth ...

Vanellope Hope Wilkins made medical history when she was born with her heart outside of her body in 2017. Described by experts as "one of a kind", Vanellope had three operations to place her heart ...