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Watch Video: This Eight-Year-Old Girl From Florida Has Heart Outside Her Body

IANS, 20 Sep, 2017 12:39 PM
    Eight-year-old Virsaviya Borun from Florida suffers from a rare condition which causes her heart to push out of her chest and beat outside her body
     
    The condition called Pentalogy of Cantrell, affects one in 5.5 million people with life-threatening complications. has also left the girl with intestines outside her body.
     
    The little girl has defied all odds to survive although doctors told her mother that she would die.
     
     
    The girl who is originally from Russia, moved to Florida with her mother after several hospitals around the world refused to operate on her because of the risks involved in the surgery. 
     
     
    Reportedly, she cannot be surgically operated due to high blood pressure posing a threat to her life.
     
     
    Although her mother hopes that one day she will get the right treatment.
     
     
    Watch the video below:
     
     

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