Sentences with phrase «single ventricle»
He had to undergo some major surgeries (cleft lip and palate, and a single ventricle heart) but he's doing great these days, and will celebrate his 9th birthday in March!
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In children with single ventricle defects, only one of these pumps is functioning.
That's 3 open heart surgeries (at a minimum) in the first few years of your babies life, and a lifetime with a single ventricle heart doing the work of both, that could have possibly been prevented.
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The CHOP - Penn Medicine team has previously shown that this novel lymphatic system imaging and intervention can cure patients with plastic bronchitis and chylothorax, two other devastating side effect of single - ventricle palliative surgery.
The researchers, from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine, focused on protein - losing enteropathy (PLE), a severe loss of proteins in the intestine that is a rare but potentially life - threatening side effect of staged heart surgery in patients with single - ventricle disease.
single - ventricle to a two - ventricle repair,» Bramlet said.
Graphic representation of atrial fibrillation with whirlwind of electrical impulses forming in the right (RA) and left atria (LA) instead a single organized impulse from the sinoatrial (SA) node causing the atrial muscle to fibrillate (quiver) instead of an organized contraction to fill the right (RV) and left ventricles (LV).