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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This is one of the best illustrations I have found for explaining PAPVR.
Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (PAPVR) is a rare congenital heart defect in which blood flow from one or more of the pulmonary veins return to the right atrium instead of to the left atrium. This is a problem because the right atrium [...]
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When faced with a complicated congenital heart defect, confidence in the skill and expertise of your child’s surgeon is of paramount importance. When our son, Nathan, was diagnosed with Scimitar Syndrome, a rare condition characterized by dextrocardia, pulmonary hypoplasia, and Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, we soon learned that our local surgeons had no personal [...]
Dr. Edward Bove was scheduled to perform Nathan’s surgery to correct Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return. I penned a simple child’s prayer–Nathan memorized it and repeated it to anyone who would lend an ear.
