Congenital Heart Defects
Pray for Sydney Cook at Children’s Hospital of Minnesota as she battles complications of Scimitar Syndrome.
Adam Blakeney is named ASPE (Alabama Society of Professional Engineers) Engineering Student of the Year.
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My oldest son (Nathan’s big bro’), Adam, has almost completed his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His team has completed a project that has recently been published in Biofabrication, a journal of state-of-the-art research and development. Much of what those guys do is waaay over my head, but [...]
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This July will make three years since Nathan’s heart surgery at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He colored a cheerful picture for me recently that seems to convey instant happiness after his heart was repaired. That’s not exactly my recollection, so I asked him what he remembers about those [...]
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Heart defects are the most common and deadly of all birth defects. Approximately 36,000 babies are born each year with a congenital heart defect. In 1950, a child born with a congenital heart defect had only a 20% chance of survival. Today, survival rates have increased to 90%. Survivors of successful childhood intervention face life-long [...]
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