Nathan's Heart Defect Success Story


Nathan Bortnick

Published on: 10/10/2008

Ethan Bortnick tells the story of how Dr. Redmon Burke and the Heart Program team at Nicklaus Children's Hospital helped bring his baby brother, Nathan back to life. Nathan was born with a hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the most devastating heart defect a baby can have.

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