article_snippet: A baby who developed a life-threatening heart defect in the womb has had a heart transplant - at just 23 days old.
article_snippet: Doctors said Dravyn JohnsonDravyn Johnsoncould die at any moment' after being born with just half a heart in Orange County, California.
article_snippet: The right side of the organ, which is essential to provide blood to the lungs, had not formed and the only hope of survival was a transplant.
article_snippet: Mother, Nicole Eggleton, who was 22 weeks pregnant when she learned of Dravyn condition, said she spent the rest of the pregnancy in fear. '
article_snippet: Pediatric heart surgeon, Brian Reemtsen, said Pediatric heart surgeon, Brian Reemtsen were worried Dravyn Johnson would not live long enough for surgery.
article_snippet: Dravyn Johnson said of the heart: 'It had such severe disease that we were afraid that the baby could arrest or die at any moment.'
article_snippet: Baby Oliver Crawford became the youngest infant to receive a heart transplant at a US hospital in January.
article_snippet: Baby Oliver Crawford underwent the operation at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona after being born seven weeks ahead of schedule with a heart defect which meant Baby Oliver Crawford parents didn't expect Dravyn to survive.
article_snippet: But when Dravyn was born in early February at an Orange County hospital, her parents discovered Dravyn had only one coronary artery instead of two and determined that surgery would be too risky.
highlights_snippet: Born with pulmonary atresia meaning only one side of heart formed .
  