Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is celebrating the success of a surgery that closed a hole in the heart of a four-week-old girl.
When she arrived at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Baby Nancy was diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect (VSD), a congenital heart defect which causes a hole between the right and left chambers of the heart.
According to a post on their Facebook page , Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta said immediately after she was born, she started showing signs of heart failure and “was using every muscle in her body just to breathe.”
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The hospital said due to how rapidly she was losing weight, Nancy had open heart surgery to repair the VSD when she was just four weeks old.
Following a successful surgery, hospital staff were delighted to announce that Nancy is back home with her family and doing well.
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