It's one of those heart defects that can sneak up on a baby.

She's basically going home with a couple of oral medications, which over the next couple of weeks to months will be weaned off, and hopefully she'll be able to live a happy, healthy life.

What's changed over the last few years is the risk of the treatment has gone down, down, down and down, so that now we're comfortable fixing almost every heart defect pretty much right after birth.

Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.

Depression is common among patients with heart attacks. About 22 percent of all heart attack patients are depressed.

We are now recognizing that it involves his heart, his liver, the kidneys. And so multiple organs are involved, and so he is in critical shape.