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8-year-old Bryson Hoover and his family donate blankets to a Bryan hospital years after a pair of life-saving surgeries.

Since 1990, the mortality rate for children born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect has more than halved.

The Marine Corps announced Monday night the commandant underwent open-heart surgery to correct a heart defect and is expected to return to full-duty after his rehabilitation.

Adulthood so you're undermultiple surgeries. there's also a 50% survival. so with this baby who was born with a heart defect that needed emergency care, the doctors used a technique using donor functional valves and arteries in this partial heart transplant procedure in order to hopefully have those heart parts grow along with the baby. and what they have seen is that that surgery has been successful and he is continuing to do well. the valves are growing along with him. he's now 20 months old out from the surgery. his parents say he's hutting all his developmental milestones and it's miraculo...

Clark says he was born with a heart defect and in recent years, that defect worsened.