Savva Martynenko

Savva is one and a half years old. He was born with a severe congenital heart disease – hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a birth defect that affects normal blood flow through the heart. As the baby develops during pregnancy, the left side of the heart does not form correctly.

Savva had his first two surgeries in Germany and successfully had his third surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Related Stories:

Fedya, 3 years old, was born with only one working pump in his heart (single ventricle heart disease). He had a Fontan

Zlata, 15 months was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), an abnormality of the heart that predominantly affects the right side of

Sofia is a six-year-old girl with a PDA (patent ductus arteriosus), a condition in which a blood vessel fails to close normally

Share: