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Sparing a Child Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery
A 4 year old boy from Houston was born with Tetralogy of Fallot and Pulmonary Atresia, requiring life-saving cardiac surgery. A conduit was placed during the baby’s first 2 weeks of life, to revise the “plumbing” necessary to keep blood flowing from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation. As the child grew, he required periodic open-chest cardiac surgery to replace the conduit and valve with larger versions in order to keep up with the volume of blood flow needed.
As his condition began to indicate need for yet another impending open-chest surgery, PinnacleCare utilized their Medical Research Team to explore other options. A few days later, PinnacleCare was able to not only provide the parents with information about a medical device approved just months prior by the FDA that would allow future replacements to be done without open-chest surgery but they also provided the names of the few specialists who were using this device. The child, now 13 and post-device implant, will never have to have his chest reopened to replace the valve.