In British Bulwell, a girl with a rare congenital malformation was born - an ectopia of the heart, in which the heart muscle is located outside the chest, reports The Guardian..

Doctors diagnosed at the ninth week of pregnancy. They reported that the chances of survival in a child are small - more than 90% of newborns with ectopic heart are born dead or die in the first days of life. Experts recommended abortion, but parents were against.

The girl was born alive, in the first hour of her life was conducted three operations, which involved more than 50 doctors. Surgeons formed a new thorax and placed a heart in it. As a result, the newspaper notes, the newborn was the first in the UK who managed to survive with such a blemish.