A toddler born with five rare heart conditions is in a race against time to receive specialist surgery in the US – but the operation to save his life will cost £400,000.
Sebastian Silver, three, was born with several complex conditions, including congenital corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA), criss-cross heart, an underdeveloped right ventricle, ventricular and atrial septal defects, and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Each condition on its own is rare, but together they present ‘an exceptionally rare and perilous clinical picture’.
The youngster has spent most of his life in and out of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), while a procedure when
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