Toddler undergoes open-heart surgery to put a 'winter coat' inside her heart

Toddler undergoes open-heart surgery to put a 'winter coat' inside her heart.

after a "winter coat" was placed inside her heart during surgery when she was just a few days old.

Pediatric Cadiologist, Michael Perez listens to Eloise Hoffman's heart at the Lurie Children's at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. "We were like, 'Do we schedule a follow-up?,' and [the doctor] said, 'No, you have to go to the hospital now. We may chopper you in or via ambulance.' So then it all sort of sunk in," Hoffman recalled.

But the surgery went off without a hitch at Lurie Children's at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, and her parents couldn't be more proud of their resilient little daughter, who just happens to have a small piece of Gore-Tex in her heart now.Pediatric Cadiologist, Michael Perez listens to Eloise Hoffman's heart at the Lurie Children's at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital.

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