By Lisa Flam
A Texas woman received tragic news 16 weeks into her pregnancy: An ultrasound showed that her fetus was developing with a rare heart malformation that almost always proves fatal.
On Audrina’s second day of life, a team of 11 doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston spent six hours performing a life-saving, open-heart surgery to make room in her chest for the one-third of her heart that was outside of her body. Read the full story.
Editor's note: Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2013 and made available to NBC News today.
Audrina Cardenas and her mother appeared on NBC's TODAY on Tuesday. Watch the video below:
