Fudan University Children's Hospital gave a child a chance to live a healthy life with a repaired heart and breastbone.
The baby, with a chance of 1 in 200,000 was born with severe damage to the breast bone, diaphragm and abdominal wall.
He was the first case of the Pentalogy of Candrell in China and one of
Perhaps more remarkably, the boy survived a 10-hour train journey to get to the operating table.
Doctors repaired the damaged breastbone and put the heart back inside the chest cavity while also corecting the congenital heart disease.
Hats off to the doctors at Fudan University Children's Hospital.
Never have children had more opportunity to grow into adulthood.
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