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Ananova
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A baby
given a 1% chance of survival has beaten the odds and is now celebrating
his first birthday
A baby given a 1% chance of survival has beaten the odds and is now
celebrating his first birthday.
Tyler Todd from Indiana was born with his heart beating outside his
chest, a condition few babies have survived.
But he is slowly getting better after intricate surgery to put the
heart back in place at Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Centre in
Chicago.
Kristen Toczydlowski, one of his nurses, said: "He has had so
many ups and downs. So many times it looked like he would not make it."
Although Tyler has never left hospital or eaten solid food, his surgeon
Dr Joseph Amato told the Chicago Sun Times: "I think he can live
a normal life."
After Tyler's sixth birthday he will need more surgery to build a breastbone
and another operation later in this teens.
No-one knows what causes the congenital defect, which affects fewer
than 1 in every 100,000 babies.
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