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Linda Luna was five months pregnant with her first child when she got the bad news: Ultrasound scans showed a deadly defect in her baby boy’s heart. He had a 90 percent chance of dying before or just after birth. But thanks to groundbreaking treatment at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, baby Liam, who went home to San Jose in January, is beating those odds. Now 3 months old, he is thought to be the first baby in the world successfully treated with prenatal maternal hyperoxygenation for his rare heart defect: congenital Ebstein’s anomaly. The problem at diagnosis? Because of severe leaks in two heart valves, blood flowed backward through the right half of Liam’s heart. His heart became dangerously enlarged. Blood flow to the body was decreased by this backward Prenatal oxygen therapy helps baby with heart defect